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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.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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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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.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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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 to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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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 am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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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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