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My mother was my greatest fan.

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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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I thought [Summer Sisters ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need 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 like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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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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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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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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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'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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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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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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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