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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

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
Forgiveness
Rest
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Whatever
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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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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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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 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 fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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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[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 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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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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