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

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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

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

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I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

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“She was surprised to feel his hand on her arm and still more surprised-almost unbelieving-to see his fingers unclasp his identification bracelet and remove…

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“He seemed grown-up, compared to the boys at school, and although he was not handsome, or even particularly good-looking—there were still some scars on…

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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling…

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“Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even…

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