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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.

She Wondered If All The Firsts In Her Life Would Go By So Quickly, And Be Forgotten Just As Quickly.

Ideas Seem To Come From Everywhere - My Life, Everything I See, Hear, And Read, And Most Of All, From My Imagination. I Have A Lot Of Imagination.

I Stop And Think Before I Start A New Book And Ask Myself Do I Really Want To Spend The Next Year Or Two Or Three With These Characters Because If I Don't, Then I Shouldn't Be Writing About Them.

It Was A Such A Surprise, Such An Absolute Shocking Surprise To Me To Not Know What You're Doing And To Find Out That This Thing That You Don't Even Know How To Do, That You're Sure You Don't Know How To Do, Speaks To So Many People And Touches So Many People In Some Way.