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All Quotes by author - Judy Blume

" After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" A novel is about people. "

" Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth. "

" Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong. "

" As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. "

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "

" Everything they say a girl should get from her father in terms of total acceptance and love, I got all that from my father. But then I married a man just like my mother - so phlegmatic. "

" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "

" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "

" I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' "

" 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 for them. "

" I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff. "

" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

" I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good. "

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

" I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. "

" I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. "

" I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days. "

" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "

" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "

" I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well. "

" I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes! "

" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

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