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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

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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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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 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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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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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 like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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 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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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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