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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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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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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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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
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I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!
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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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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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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 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 fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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