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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.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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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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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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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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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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
Judy Blume
I love to watch movies.
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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
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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 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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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 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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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.
Judy Blume
[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
Judy Blume
I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
Judy Blume
I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was Dobbin Does This and Dobbin Does That.
Judy Blume
I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children.But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
Judy Blume
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
Judy Blume
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Judy Blume
I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
Judy Blume
