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" I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes! "

Judy Blume

Think

Become

Better

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" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

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" 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.' "

" 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 am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff. "

" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "

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

" People need stories; they want stories. They always will. "

" 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 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. "

Judy Blume

Famous

I Am

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" I'm an Obama chick. "

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Obama

Chick

" 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. "

" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "

Judy Blume

Grateful

You

" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

" 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

" 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 don't want to repeat myself. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" I have the most loyal readers in the world. "

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

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

" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "

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

" 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. "

" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "

" 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.' "

" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "

" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "