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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.

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
Creative
Outlet
Opportunity
Outlets
Happens
Adult
Kids
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Awful
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because 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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It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.
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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 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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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
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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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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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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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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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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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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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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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