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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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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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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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 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 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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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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It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.
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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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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.
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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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