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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"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."
"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
"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."
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