Judy Blume Quotes
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Moms come up to me at book signings.
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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 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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our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
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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 don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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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 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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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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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.
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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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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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My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
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I thought books ban was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.
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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 husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
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My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain 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.