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" 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. "

Judy Blume

Father

Girl

Love

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" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "

" I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication. "

" 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.' "

Judy Blume

Trouble

Always

" 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. "

" I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.' "

" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "

" I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying. "

" 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? "

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

Judy Blume

Process

Creative

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

" I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

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

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

" Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.' "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" I loved 'Moneyball,' I thought that was a great Hollywood movie. I like baseball, but I don't know that you have to like baseball to like that. I thought it was really well done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

Well

Push

" It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially. "

" I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids. "

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

" 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. "

" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "

" In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care. "