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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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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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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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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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 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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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 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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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.
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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 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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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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