Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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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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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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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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 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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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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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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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 love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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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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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.