Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Spending
Bookstores
Mystery
Nancy
Probably
Downtown
Read
Drew
Remember
Eleven
Children
Mysteries
Never
Twins
Bookstore
Twelve
Allowance

More quotes by Judy Blume

Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Judy Blume
Image
I love to watch movies.
Judy Blume
Image
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.
Judy Blume
Image
I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Judy Blume
Image
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy Blume
Image
[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
Image
I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
Judy Blume
Image
We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
Judy Blume
Image
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
Judy Blume
Image
My mother was my greatest fan.
Judy Blume
Image
You've never been in love, she said. You don't understand. If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
Image
I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
Judy Blume
Image
How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
Judy Blume
Image
It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.
Judy Blume
Image
I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
Judy Blume
Image
[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
Judy Blume
Image
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
Image
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.
Judy Blume
Image
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
Judy Blume
Image
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
Judy Blume