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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What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
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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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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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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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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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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.