Judy Blume Quotes

• 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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• It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

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• The truth will make you odd.

   

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• When I’m writing a book, you can’t think about your audience. You’re going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You’re got to write from deep inside.

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• When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother – and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

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• When I started to write, it was the ’70s, and throughout that decade, we didn’t have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

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• What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

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• The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

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• The child from nine 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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• The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.

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• It’s all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it’s that determination.

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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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• I’m an e-mail junkie though I’m trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

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• I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

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• I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

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• I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

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• I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

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• I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we’re connected. It’s great.

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• I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

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• I love to watch movies.

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Judy Blume (26)

Birth:	12th February, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Teacher, Writer

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