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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
Safety
Security
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Life

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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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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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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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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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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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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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 love to watch movies.
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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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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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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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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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 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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