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" 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.' "

Judy Blume

Prayers

Little

Someday

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" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "

Judy Blume

Children

Been

" 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. "

" 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

" 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'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'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "

Judy Blume

Grateful

You

" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "

Judy Blume

Process

Creative

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

" 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. "

" People need stories; they want stories. They always will. "

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

" A novel is about people. "

" 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.' "

" The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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

Great

Proud

" I'm an Obama chick. "

Judy Blume

Obama

Chick

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there. "

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