Paula Danziger Quotes

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

definitely not best friends

Got to sit in this big uncomfortable chair with my head leaning back in this groove. The hair washer must have

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now ... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

Fighting with your best friend is NO fun.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

I know I'm not a perfect dad, Amber. But I'm trying."
You don't have to be perfect, I say."Just be my dad.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose ... but you can't pick your friends' noses.
Well, I didn't get to pick my parents.
I am glad that I have them, though.
I just wish that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life picking one of them and not the other. - Amber Brown

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Mrs. Holt, however, is grinning. "I have a wonderful announcement," she says. "No practice test today!" Jimmy Russell shouts. "No tests at all!" Bobby Clifford shouts. Mrs. Holt's grin gets a little tight and she says, "Be careful, boys, or I might decide to have two practice tests today." Bobby and Jimmy cover their mouths with their hands. Lately school has been about as much fun as packing. That's because statewide testing is in a few weeks. Mrs. Holt and our principal, Mr. Robinson, have made it clear that doing well on the statewide tests is REALLY IMPORTANT.

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I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown