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" 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. "

Judy Blume

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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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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" Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. "

" 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.' "

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" When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing. "

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Growing

Sweaters

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