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" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "

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" 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. "

Judy Blume

Decisions

Own

Care

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Judy Blume

Think

Myself

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.' "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

Judy Blume

Believe

You

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" 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. "

" 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 phobic about thunderstorms. "

Judy Blume

About

" 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.' "

" When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "

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

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

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

" 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. "

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

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

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

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

Judy Blume

Famous

I Am

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