I Wanted To Write Honest Books For

Some Characters Become Your Friends For Life. That's How It Was For Me With Betsy-tacy.

With "margaret," I Remember Clearly It Was, You Know Because I Did Remember It Clearly. I Was Young. I Was Young In Terms Of Experience And What Did I Know About And I Had An Incredible Memory From My Own Childhood. And So It Never Occurred To Me To Write For Any Other Age Group. And I Thought I'm Going To Write A Book And I'm Going To Tell The Truth.

It Didn't Happen In The 70s. So I Had A Whole Decade When I Was Writing These Books And Maybe There Was A Little Bit Here Or There But There Was No Big Effort To Ban Books.

I Wanted To Tell Him That I Will Never Be Sorry For Loving Him. That In A Way I Still Do - That Maybe I Always Will. I'll Never Regret One Single Thing We Did Together Because What We Had Was Very Special. Maybe If We Were Ten Years Older It Would Have Worked Out Differently. Maybe. I Think It's Just That I'm Not Ready For Forever.

I Thought [books Ban] Was Crazy. Really My Thoughts Were "this Is America, We Don't Do This Here" But Of Course I Know A Lot Better Now. And I Wasn't The Only One. Norma Klein Was Writing At The Same Time. Her Books Were Going. So Many Of Us. When You Say To Me, No You Can't Do This I Say, Oh Yes I Can.