What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.