Judy Blume Quotes

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

Fear, Children, Parents

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

Fear, Real, Young

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.
Judy Blume

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

Best, Write, Books

A good writer is always a people watcher.
Judy Blume

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

Book, Until, Trouble

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
Judy Blume

Thankful, Book, Big

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.
Judy Blume

Become, Loved, Though

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.
Judy Blume

Power, Hate, Focus

I love to watch movies.
Judy Blume

Love, Movies, Watch

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.
Judy Blume

Morning, Child, Loved

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.
Judy Blume

Great, Book, Treat

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.
Judy Blume

Home, Care, Writing

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

Kids, Write, Lives

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
Judy Blume

True, Wanted, Write

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.
Judy Blume

Trying, Once, Read

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!
Judy Blume

Bad, Happen, Ideas

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.
Judy Blume

Life, Everything, Read

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

Fire, Worry, Books

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.
Judy Blume

Writing, Child, Write

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

Thinking, Enjoy, Creative

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

Morning, Remember, Wait

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, Problems, Write

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

Great, Mother, Father

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.
Judy Blume

Deep, Book, Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 12, 1938

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