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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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 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 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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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 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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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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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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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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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
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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 don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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