Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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 try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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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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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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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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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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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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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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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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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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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 was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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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.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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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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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.