I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
Paula Danziger
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.
pain writing truth story writer write forget silly
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.
meeting circles people
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
people
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
funny people
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
funny choice life
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.
life work
rules technology change
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.
age help family
None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.
character
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
marriage
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