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My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.
Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.
I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.
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.
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
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.
That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.
But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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.
First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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
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.
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 am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.
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.
Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
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.
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.
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 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.
I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
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!
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
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.
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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 wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.
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.
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
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.
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.'