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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
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New Jersey
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Judith Sussman
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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 don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
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I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
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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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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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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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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.
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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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Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.
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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 am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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 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 do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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 you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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