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" When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "

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" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "

" When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.' "

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

" Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.' "

" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "

" When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing. "

" I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them. "

" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff. "

" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "

" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "

" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "

" I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different. "

" I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. "

" I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. "

" When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books. "

" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "

" After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it. "

" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "

" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "

" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "

" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "

" I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. "

" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "

" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "

" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "