Judy Blume Quotes
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.
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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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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I love to watch movies.
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If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.
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Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.
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I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.
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Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.
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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
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My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
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Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.
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I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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A good writer is always a people watcher.