Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.
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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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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
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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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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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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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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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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 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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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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.