Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
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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.
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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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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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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
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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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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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You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
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"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.
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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 insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
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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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Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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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.