I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues. Paula Danziger
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. Paula Danziger
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell. Paula Danziger
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. Paula Danziger
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. Paula Danziger
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. Paula Danziger
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. Paula Danziger
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. Paula Danziger
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning. Mark Z.Danielewski
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story. Mark Z.Danielewski
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear. Mark Z.Danielewski
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context. Mark Z.Danielewski
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone. Mark Z.Danielewski
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. Mark Z.Danielewski