Judy Blume Quotes
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

Quotes to Explore
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
-
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
-
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
-
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
-
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
-
Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
-
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
-
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
-
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
-
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
-
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
-
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
-
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
-
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
-
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
-
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
-
One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
-
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
-
The power suit is over.
-
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
-
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.