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" 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. "
Judy Blume
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" In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them. "
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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 for them. "
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" Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you? "
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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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" I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it. "
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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 do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "
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" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "
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Happen
" I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.' "
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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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Book
Challenges
Problems
" 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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Wait
Write
Started
" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "
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" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "
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Parents
Support
Children
" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "
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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 someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. "
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Focus
People
" 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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" The '50s were a secretive time. "
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" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "
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Protect
Against
Breast Cancer
" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well. "
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" My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like. "
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" I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education. "
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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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" A good writer is always a people watcher. "
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" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "
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