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[when I Was A Kid] I Was A Surgeon, Amputating Legs And Arms Of My Paper Dolls. And I Had A Little Board With Little Tacks That I Would Tack Them Down To Do This.

The Best Books Come From Someplace Deep Inside.... Become Emotionally Involved. If You Don't Care About Your Characters, Your Readers Won't Either.

I Never Read A Horse Book In My Life. But I Thought That's What My Friends Were Reading And That's What I Should Be Reading. And This Was "dobbin Does This" And "dobbin Does That."

I Don't Really Know Exactly How It Happened But I Don't Like The Idea That I Would Ever Have Said I'm Going To Write About Racism Or Puberty Or Bullying.

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.