"I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson."
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"Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part."
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"The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!"
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"I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl."
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"I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more."
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"I always had a fascination with twins."
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"Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends."
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"She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them."
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"I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet."
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"When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is."
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"But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy."
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"I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter."
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"Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection."
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"The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave."
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