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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.
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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 like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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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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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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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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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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My mother was my greatest fan.
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