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" I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.' "

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" 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'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. "

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

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

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

Judy Blume

Growing

Sweaters

" What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. "

" A novel is about people. "

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

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

" 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 hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. "

" I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. "

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

" 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

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

" When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

Believe

You

" 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. "

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

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

" 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. "