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" 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! "
Judy Blume
Create
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Will
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" 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. "
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" You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream. "
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" It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. "
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" We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "
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" When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that. "
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" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "
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" When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books. "
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" I have the most loyal readers in the world. "
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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. "
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" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "
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Challenged
College
You
" I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside. "
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Goals
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" 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! "
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Lock
Up
Story
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Think
Today
School
" 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. "
Judy Blume
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" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "
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" 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. "
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Me
Great
Proud
" 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. "
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Two
Years
" 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. "
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Though
Day
" The '50s were a secretive time. "
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" I love to watch movies. "
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Love
" 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
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" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "
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Things
People
" 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. "
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Great
Wish
Small
" We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn. "
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Learn
Something
Uncomfortable
" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "
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" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "
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" 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. "
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