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" I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. "

Judy Blume

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

" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "

" 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. "

" My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it. "

Judy Blume

Love

Book

" 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 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. "

" Everything they say a girl should get from her father in terms of total acceptance and love, I got all that from my father. But then I married a man just like my mother - so phlegmatic. "

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

" We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things. "

" When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "

" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. "

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

" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "

" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "

Judy Blume

Book

Books

" I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Judy Blume

Children

Been

" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "

" If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us. "

" When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing. "