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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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some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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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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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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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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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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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My mother was my greatest fan.
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When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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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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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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read Summer Sisters, I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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