Some Changes Happen Deep Down

I Would Make Up [theodor] Seuss-like Books At Night When I Was Cleaning Up From The Dinner, You Know, Putting These Little Kids To Bed, Reading Them Rhyming Books. And So That's What I Started Doing. They Were Really Bad. I Have Some In A Box And It Says On The Box, It's A Note To My Kids You Know, When I Die, If You Ever Publish These I Will Come Back And Haunt You.

I Don't Really Know Exactly How It Happened But I Don't Like The Idea That I Would Ever Have Said I'm Going To Write About Racism Or Puberty Or Bullying.

I Was Little Miss Perfect. That's Where All The Secrets Come In, Because You Know Damn Well You Are Not Perfect, But You Think Your Parents Want You To Be. And So You Pretend.

It Didn't Happen In The 70s. So I Had A Whole Decade When I Was Writing These Books And Maybe There Was A Little Bit Here Or There But There Was No Big Effort To Ban Books.

My Parents Gave Me That Gift Of "reading Is A Good Thing." I Mean My Mother Was Afraid Of Everything. But She Was Never Afraid That Judy Is Reading.