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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
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Opportunity
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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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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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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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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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
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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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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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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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I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children.But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.
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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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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