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" 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
Me
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" You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream. "
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" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "
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Dinner
" 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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People
" I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there. "
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" A good writer is always a people watcher. "
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" 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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Wish
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" I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different. "
Judy Blume
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Today
School
" 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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Need
Saying
" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "
Judy Blume
Find
Question
Teachers
" 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. "
Judy Blume
See
My Life
Imagination
" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "
Judy Blume
Process
Up
Creative
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Wait
Write
Started
" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "
Judy Blume
Censorship
Real
Fear
" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "
Judy Blume
Worry
Nothing
Happen
" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "
Judy Blume
People
Think
Ability
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Book
Two
Years
" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "
Judy Blume
Book
Challenges
Problems
" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "
Judy Blume
Just
Quite
Sometimes
" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "
Judy Blume
Doing
Long
Never
" I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying. "
Judy Blume
Book
Writing
Working
" People need stories; they want stories. They always will. "
Judy Blume
Always
Need
People
" I'm an Obama chick. "
Judy Blume
Obama
Chick
" When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "
Judy Blume
Through
Used
Write
" 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. "
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Say
You
Will
" My husband is a feminist! "
Judy Blume
Husband
Feminist
" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "
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Issue
Writing
" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "
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New
" 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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Determination
People
Talent
" When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books. "
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