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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. "

Judy Blume

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

" I'm an Obama chick. "

Judy Blume

Obama

Chick

" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "

" When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. "

" 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

" 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! "

Judy Blume

Lock

Story

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Book

" 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! "

" I love to watch movies. "

" 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.' "

" It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination. "

" 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! "

" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

" 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. "

" It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. "

" 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. "

" I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids. "

" 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

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

" I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' "

Judy Blume

Trouble

Always