I'm A People Person. I Never Get

I Hate First Drafts, And It Never Gets Easier. People Always Wonder What Kind Of Superhero Power They'd Like To Have. I Wanted The Ability For Someone To Just Open Up My Brain And Take Out The Entire First Draft And Lay It Down In Front Of Me So I Can Just Focus On The Second, Third And Fourth Drafts.

"summer Sisters" Is Probably My Least Autobiographical Book. The Whole Idea Started With Rowing Down The Pond. And I Heard An Explosion. I Don't Like Sudden Loud Noises. They Scare Me. And Then All These People Came Running Down The Hill And Jumped In The Water In Their Finery And A Bride And Groom Was With Them, And That's Where It All Started.

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 Never Thought About Writing. I Was Married Young, I Was Still In College, As We Did Then, And I Had Two Babies Before I Was 25, And I Loved Them, And I Loved Taking Care Of Them, But I Was A Little Bit Cuckoo, Staying At Home And Not Having A Creative Outlet.

"margaret" Was Just My Truth. It Was What I Knew To Be True About Sixth Grade.