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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.


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.


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.


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


I love to watch movies.


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!


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 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.


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


A good writer is always a people watcher.


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.


The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.


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.


It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.


I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.


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.


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.


The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.


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.