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Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything. (Judy Blume)
The truth will make you odd. View quote
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Snoring keeps the monsters away. View quote
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You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything. View quote
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Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands. View quote
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My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. View quote
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. (Judy Blume)
I love to watch movies. View quote
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It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. View quote
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I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. View quote
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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. View quote
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. View quote
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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. View quote
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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination. View quote
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some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. (Judy Blume)
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. View quote
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. View quote
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