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" 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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" 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

" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "

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

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

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

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

Judy Blume

Book

Books

" 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. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" 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.' "

" Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids? "

" 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. "

" I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

Know

Say

" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "

" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "

" 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. "

" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "

" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

God

Mother

" 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.' "

" I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books. "

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

Judy Blume

Growing

Sweaters

" 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

" I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen. "

" Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth. "