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Paula Danziger
American
Author
About the author
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,
American
Author
#Father
#Divorce
Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#People
#Books
#Funny
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.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Want
#School
#Sex
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,
American
Author
#Talk
#Kids
#Respect
#Books
#Learning
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Life
#Choice
#Funny
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Name
#Famous
#Comedians
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,
American
Author
#People
#Thought
#Mother
#Father
#Childhood
#Sarcastic
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,
American
Author
#Want
#Now
#Life
#Work
#Day
#Coffee
#Books
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Books
I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Books
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,
American
Author
#Want
#Now
#People
#Friends
#Meeting
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,
American
Author
#Kids
#Years
#Technology
#Change
#Parents
#Rules
#Disagreements
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,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Family
#Help
#Age
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Successful
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
Paula Danziger,
American
Author
#Father