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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Moral
Fear
Often
Disguised
Outrage

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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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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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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
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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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Summer Sisters is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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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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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 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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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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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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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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