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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
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New Jersey
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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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My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.
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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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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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you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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 best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
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I love to watch movies.
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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 love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read Summer Sisters, I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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[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.
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