I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up

I Love To Talk With Children. I Try To Visit Schools But It's Hard For Me To Travel When I'm Trying To Write. Some Authors Are Able To Do Both.

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.

The Best Books Come From Someplace Inside. You Don't Write Because You Want To, But Because You Have To.

I Wanted To Write Honest Books For Kids Because I Didn't Have Those When I Was A Kid.

If No One Speaks Out For [young Readers], If They Don’t Speak Out For Themselves, All They’ll Get For Required Reading Will Be The Most Bland Books Available. Instead Of Finding The Information They Need At The Library, Instead Of Finding Novels That Illuminate Life, They Will Find Only Those Materials To Which Nobody Could Possibly Object... In This Age Of Censorship I Mourn The Loss Of Books That Will Never Be Written, I Mourn The Voices That Will Be Silenced — Writers’ Voices, Teachers’ Voices, Students’ Voices — And All Because Of Fear.