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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."

"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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