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You've never been in love, she said. You don't understand. If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven't missed anything.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Love
Freedom
Opportunity
Understand
Means
Mention
Anything
Missed
Giving
Opportunities
Mean
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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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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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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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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My mother was my greatest fan.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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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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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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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were This is America, we don't do this here but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.
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We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
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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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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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