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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

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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
Judith Sussman
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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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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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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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Summer Sisters is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.
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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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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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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 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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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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 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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I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
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