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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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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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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.
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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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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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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 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 am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!
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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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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
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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 loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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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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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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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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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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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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