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" 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
Me
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Why
Years
" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "
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" Everything they say a girl should get from her father in terms of total acceptance and love, I got all that from my father. But then I married a man just like my mother - so phlegmatic. "
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Girl
Love
" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "
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Time
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" I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days. "
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Think
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" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "
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God
Mother
Me
" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "
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Children
Talk
Together
" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "
Judy Blume
Secrets
Good
Keeping
" 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. "
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Know
" 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
Back
Grow Up
Boring
" My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors. "
Judy Blume
Look
Because
Mother
" 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
" My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like. "
Judy Blume
Life
Father
Like
" 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
" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "
Judy Blume
Parents
Support
Children
" 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
" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "
Judy Blume
Many
Believe
Notebooks
" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "
Judy Blume
Children
Been
Me
" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "
Judy Blume
Censorship
Real
Fear
" I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes! "
Judy Blume
Think
Become
Better
" If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us. "
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Decisions
Own
Care
" I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside. "
Judy Blume
Need
Goals
Very
" I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. "
Judy Blume
Grow Up
Grow
Know
" 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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Love
Parents
Think
" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "
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Society
Wish
Who
" 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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Only
Though
Day
" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "
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Anything
Writing
Trying
" 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. "
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Writing
Child
Write
" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "
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New
Movement
Coming