Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
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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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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.