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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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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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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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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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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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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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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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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 don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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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 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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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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Summer Sisters is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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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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