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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
Books
Write
Best
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Come
Writing
Someplace
Inside

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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
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I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!
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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read Summer Sisters, I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
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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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I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
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I love to watch movies.
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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 revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
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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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