I Kept A Diary As A Teenager

A Person Without Curiosity May As Well Be Dead.

A Lot Of People Worry Much Too Much About What Their Children Are Reading... If A Child Picks Up A Book And Reads Something She Has A Question About, If She Can Go To Her Parents, Great. Or Else They Will Read Right Over It. It Won't Mean A Thing. They Are Very Good, I Think, At Monitoring What Makes Them Feel Uncomfortable. If Something Makes Them Feel Uncomfortable They Will Put It Down.

The Only Thing That Works With Writing Is That You Care So Passionately About It Yourself, That You Make Someone Else Care Passionately About It.

I Kept A Diary As A Teenager But I Never Would Have Shared It With Anyone. Still, I Think It's Very Good Practice To Write Things Down.

I've Never Really Thought In Terms Of Taboos. I Think That Books Can Really Help Parents And Kids Talk Together About Difficult Subjects. I've Always Felt That Way.