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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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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
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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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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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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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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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