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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Wagner
Michael
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Forever
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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 thought [Summer Sisters ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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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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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
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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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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 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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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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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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