Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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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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Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
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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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You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
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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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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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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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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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Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.
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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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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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When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.
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Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.
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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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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.