Judy Blume Quotes
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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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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When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
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Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
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You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because 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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In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'
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A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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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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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth Westheimer show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".
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Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.
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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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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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"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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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
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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 wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.