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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

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
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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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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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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
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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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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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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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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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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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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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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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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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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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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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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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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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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