I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

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• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  Kids are mostly very resilient.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to tou

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, ju

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

• Laurie Halse Anderson:

  We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how t