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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. "

Judy Blume

Fight

Alone

My Life

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

" 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. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

" I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. "

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

" 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! "

" 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.' "

" 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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Famous

I Am

" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

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

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

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "

" You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

Great

Proud

" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "