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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.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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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.
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children.But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.
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some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was Dobbin Does This and Dobbin Does That.
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I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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