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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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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
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When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.
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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 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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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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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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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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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 think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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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.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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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.
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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
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