Paula Danziger Quotes

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• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but…
• I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single
• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my…
• I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
• Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell
• I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do
• I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for…
• I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try…
• I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away,…
• I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell…
• I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them
• In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff…
• Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.
• Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.
• Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
• When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
• It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll…
• Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story…
• None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening…

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