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

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" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "

" The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. "

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

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

" I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

" I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well. "

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

" I love to watch movies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" People need stories; they want stories. They always will. "

" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "

" My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like. "

" I'm an Obama chick. "

" I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books. "

" 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. "

" When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing. "

" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "

" You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" 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'm not good at keeping secrets. "

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

" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

" Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. "