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We have a lot of houses that have been broken up. We have more housing units than we need in the city. What we need is one-family homes.


Barbara Blanchard

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BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK