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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Determination
Talent
Hard
Important
Work

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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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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 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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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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You've never been in love, she said. You don't understand. If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven't missed anything.
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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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