Judy Blume Quotes
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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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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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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 have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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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 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 wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.
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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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you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
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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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I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
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hi I hope u want to be my friends
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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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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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.