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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Angry
Acting

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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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I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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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'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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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 will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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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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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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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'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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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