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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 22nd, 1948

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