Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.
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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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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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What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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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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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.
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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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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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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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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.