I really like my cars. The way I see it, if I work then I can treat myself to these presents.

Anyone thinking me treating myself affects my snooker doesn't know what they're talking about.

I feel I work as hard, if not harder, than anyone.

I'm always practising because I enjoy it.

I am aware of the crowd, the need to get them motivated and involved.

I try and put on a show for the crowd and make sure they enjoy it.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

I always go for centuries at the end of frames because it gives the fans a chance to celebrate.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

I want to really prove that I'm up there with the best players in the world.

Now I want to push on, I don't want to be remembered for just winning one world title, I want to go on and win as many big tournaments as possible.

Goals? I've achieved the main ones of winning the World Championship and being world number one.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

It is just nice to be able to tick off all of the events I've won and hopefully one day be able to complete them all.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

Snooker's never going to be that. It's never going to be a worldwide game like tennis and golf. It's never going to happen.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?

I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it.

Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

I'm an Obama chick.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.

You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

I'm phobic about thunderstorms.

When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'

In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care.