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    [ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

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    A good writer is always a people watcher.

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    A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

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    A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.

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    Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

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    A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

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    Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

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    Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

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    But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

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    Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

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    Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

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    Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

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    Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

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    Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

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    Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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    Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

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    Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.

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    hi I hope u want to be my friends

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    How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

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    I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

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    I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.

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    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.

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    I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

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    I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

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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.

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    I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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    I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret.

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    I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

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    I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

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    If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

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    I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

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    If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... 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.

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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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    I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

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    I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.

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    I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

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    I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

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    I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

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    I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

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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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    I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

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    I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

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    I love to watch movies.

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    I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

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    I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.

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    I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

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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'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

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    I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

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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.