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I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

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I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

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

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I have the most loyal readers in the world.

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

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When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that.

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I love to watch movies.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

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

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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.

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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.

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I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

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My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!

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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.

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

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In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

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I don't want to repeat myself.

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

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You're supposed to be challenged in college.

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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.

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

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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.

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I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

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A novel is about people.

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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.'

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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.

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