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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. "
Judy Blume
Wait
Write
Started
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" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "
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Real
Fear
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Me
Great
Proud
" 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! "
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Create
See
Will
" 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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Father
Girl
Love
" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "
Judy Blume
Never
Acne
Book
" 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
" When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "
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Through
Used
Write
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Children
Talk
Together
" Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change. "
Judy Blume
You
Time
Change
" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "
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Challenged
College
You
" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "
Judy Blume
People
Think
Ability
" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "
Judy Blume
Grateful
You
Me
" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "
Judy Blume
Free
Young
Parents
" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "
Judy Blume
About
" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "
Judy Blume
Worry
Nothing
Happen
" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "
Judy Blume
Lot
Love
Daughter
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Find
Question
Teachers
" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "
Judy Blume
Book
Up
Books
" 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. "
Judy Blume
Love
Like
Book
" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "
Judy Blume
Anything
Writing
Trying
" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "
Judy Blume
Secrets
Good
Keeping
" We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn. "
Judy Blume
Learn
Something
Uncomfortable
" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "
Judy Blume
Book
Challenges
Problems
" 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'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
" 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 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. "
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Power
Focus
People
" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "
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Protect
Against
Breast Cancer
" I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying. "
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Book
Writing
Working
" A good writer is always a people watcher. "
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Good
People
Writer