Judy Blume Quotes

United States, Writer
February 12, 1938

Judy Blume is an American writer known for children's and young adult fiction. Some of her best known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret , Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing , Deenie , and Blubber. The New Yorker has called her books "talismans that, for a significant segment of the American female population, marked the passage from childhood to adolescence."

Also known as Children'S Writer

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

Judy Blume
- Writing
- Changed
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Judy Blume
- Character

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

Judy Blume
- Writing
- Persons
- Fearless
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.

Judy Blume
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Judy Blume
- Persons
- Handsome
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.

Judy Blume
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

Judy Blume
- Writing
- Children
- Trying
Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Judy Blume
- Ideas
- Imagine

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

Judy Blume
- Writing
- Fiction
You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Judy Blume
- Enjoy
- Forget