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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

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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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Sometimes
Handwriting
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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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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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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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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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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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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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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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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