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

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Write
Best
Book
Come
Writing
Someplace
Inside
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
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