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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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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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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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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
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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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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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.
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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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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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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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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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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