I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.
From Judy Blume
I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.
I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'
I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.
I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home!
I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.
I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.
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