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" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "

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

" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

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

" I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness. "

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

" I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days. "

" A novel is about people. "

" My husband is a feminist! "

" As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. "

" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

" I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.' "

" When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. "

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

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

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" 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. "

" What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. "

" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

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

" 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. "

" What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. "

" 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. "

" 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 meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. "

" 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. "