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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 like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
Judy Blume
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My mother was my greatest fan.
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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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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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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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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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I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.
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I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.
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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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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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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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We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.
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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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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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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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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
Judy Blume