I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.