Judy Blume Quotes
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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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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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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.
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I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.
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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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[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.
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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 thought "Summer Sisters" would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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The truth will make you odd.
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Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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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It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.
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I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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Without peanut butter, I might starve.
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I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.
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I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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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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Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
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I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.
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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
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Moms come up to me at book signings.
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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.