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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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 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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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
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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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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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[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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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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 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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
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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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If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
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