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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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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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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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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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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
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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 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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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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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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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