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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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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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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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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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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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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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I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were This is America, we don't do this here but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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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 was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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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 kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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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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