Judy Blume Quotes
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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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What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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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 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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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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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"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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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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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.
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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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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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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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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.