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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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" 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. "

Judy Blume

You

Best

Book

" 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.' "

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

" In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them. "

" Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness. "

" 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 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'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "

" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "

" 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 love to watch movies. "

" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "

Judy Blume

Children

Been

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

" 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? "

" We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

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

" I'm an Obama chick. "

Judy Blume

Obama

Chick

" I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good. "