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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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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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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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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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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read Summer Sisters, I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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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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I thought [Summer Sisters ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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