Judy Blume Quotes
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But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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A good writer is always a people watcher.
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We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.
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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 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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I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
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I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.
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I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."
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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
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In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.