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 never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

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 am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.