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25 quotes by Judy Blume

Judith "Judy" Blume (/bluːm/; née Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer. Her novels for children and young adults have exceeded sales of 80 million and have been translated into 32 languages. In 1996 she won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contribution to writing for teens. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle racism (Iggie's House), menstruation (Are You There God? It's...
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The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

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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... →

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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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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for... →

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I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful... →

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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... →

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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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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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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... →

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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'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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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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