Do Not Tell Me What To Do

Caitlyn Isn't Someone To Get Over. She's Someone To Come To Terms With, The Way You Have To Come To Terms With Your Parents, Your Siblings. You Can't Deny They Ever Happened. You Can't Deny You Ever Loved Them, Love Them Still, Even If Loving Them Causes You Pain.

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.

I Always Have Trouble With Titles For My Books. I Usually Have No Title Until The Editor Has To Present The Book And Calls Me Frantically, 'judy, We Need A Title.

My Husband Says I Have Too Much Imagination, But I Don't Think A Writer Can Have Too Much Imagination!

I Fell In Love With Books At The Elizabeth Public Library When I Was Four.