Latest Judy Blume Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• [With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Book, Mean

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• Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Interesting, Clubs

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• It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

  Judy Blume

  People, Way, Speak

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Believe, Writing

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• Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

  Judy Blume

  Thinking, Perfect, Parent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.

  Judy Blume

  Jobs, Blow, Thinking

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• We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

  Judy Blume

  Jobs, Growing Up, Blow

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• It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

  Judy Blume

  Mean, Sexuality

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Girlfriend, Sex

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Summer, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Nice, House

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• "Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Running, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• "Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Summer, Betrayal

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Parent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Kids, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

  Judy Blume

  I Can

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• When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Scary, Bans

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

  Judy Blume

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Thinking, Library

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Play, Speak

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net