"My father was a very unhappy person, very……" — Paula Danziger
"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 it wasn't a good childhood."
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21 Quotes by Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger has 21 quotes on this site.
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I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
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I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single
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At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful,…
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I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
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Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell
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I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do
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I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people.…
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I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and…
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I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and…
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I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a…
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I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them
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In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now,…
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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