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" 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. "

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume

God

Mother

" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

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

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "

" 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. "

" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "

" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

" 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. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

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

" 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. "

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

Judy Blume

Process

Creative

" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "

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

Judy Blume

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Been