50 Quotes by Paula Danziger

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn’t make you a terrible person. That’s important to me.

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.

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