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" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "
Judy Blume
Protect
Against
Breast Cancer
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" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "
Judy Blume
Process
Up
Creative
" When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing. "
Judy Blume
Growing
Sweaters
Up
" It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. "
Judy Blume
Fire
Never
Now
" Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.' "
Judy Blume
School
Born
Eyes
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Loved
Great
Mother
" I don't want to repeat myself. "
Judy Blume
Myself
Repeat
Want
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Writing
Book
Parent
" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "
Judy Blume
People
Think
Ability
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Great
Wish
Small
" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "
Judy Blume
Reason
Crazy
Pretty
" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "
Judy Blume
Book
Up
Books
" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "
Judy Blume
Emotional
I Am
Never
" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "
Judy Blume
Interested
Wildly
Puberty
" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "
Judy Blume
Say
You
Will
" 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. "
Judy Blume
See
My Life
Imagination
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Power
Focus
People
" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "
Judy Blume
Live
Family
Dinner
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Thought
Why
Years
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Fly
Places
Now
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Treat
People
Know
" My husband is a feminist! "
Judy Blume
Husband
Feminist
" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "
Judy Blume
Challenged
College
You
" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "
Judy Blume
Best
Write
Want
" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "
Judy Blume
Child
Think
Much
" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "
Judy Blume
Doing
Long
Never
" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "
Judy Blume
Worry
Nothing
Happen
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Loved
Back
Morning
" 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'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "
Judy Blume
Mother
Always
Best
" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "
Judy Blume
Feelings
God
Me