Carolina QuotesThe reasons for censorship reflect the social climate of the times. The publisher of Debutante Hill asked me to revise the manuscript because I had a 19-year-old boy (the ‘bad guy’) drink a beer. When I changed the beer to a Coke, the book was published and won the ‘Seventeenth Summer Literary Award.’
Lois Duncan Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On censorship, interview in Absolute Write (2002)
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- interview
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- 1990–2002
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- 1990
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I understand the craft of writing, because it’s who and what I am. The commercial world of publishing, both in the past and today, is an ongoing mystery to me. Fads are constantly changing.
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I cannot remember a time when I did not consider myself a writer.