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" I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

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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. "

Judy Blume

Well Done

You

Thought

" 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.' "

" 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! "

" It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially. "

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

" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

" 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. "

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

Judy Blume

Book

Books

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

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

" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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'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

" In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care. "

" What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. "

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story! "

Judy Blume

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Story