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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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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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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'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
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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 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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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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 fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.
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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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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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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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