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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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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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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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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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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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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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 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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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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