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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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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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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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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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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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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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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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