Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

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.

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.

I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

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.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.