I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

I read my books aloud before they were published.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

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

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.