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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!

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 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 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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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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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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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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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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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