In This Age Of Censorship, I Mourn

When I'm Writing A Book, You Can't Think About Your Audience. You're Going To Be In Big Trouble If You Think About It. You're Got To Write From Deep Inside.

It Didn't Happen In The 70s. So I Had A Whole Decade When I Was Writing These Books And Maybe There Was A Little Bit Here Or There But There Was No Big Effort To Ban Books.

Some Characters Become Your Friends For Life. That's How It Was For Me With Betsy-tacy.

My Mother Never Talked About Sex. I Was On The Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] Show Once - This Is Years And Years And Years Ago - And It Was Her Mother's Day Show. And I Didn't Know What We Were Going To Talk About But What She Decided We Were Going To Talk About Was Female Masturbation. My Mother Had Invited All Her Girlfriends. And You Know These Were All Women In Their Late Seventy's Maybe They Were In Their Eighty's By Then And Then And They Were Horrified Because Dr Ruth Had A Little She Had A Little Chart Up You Know "female Masturbation".

I Try To Create New Characters In Each Book I Write. That's What Makes Writing Fun And Interesting For Me.