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" I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen. "
Judy Blume
See
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" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "
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" A good writer is always a people watcher. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things. "
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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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" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "
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" I love to watch movies. "
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" Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people. "
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" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "
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" When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that. "
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" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "
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" It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "
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" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "
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Best
" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "
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" 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. "
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" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "
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" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "
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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.' "
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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 because we won't have as much fear. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "
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