Judy Blume Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Kids, Needs

• Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Book, Reading

• [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. 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

  Real, Book, Fire

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013

• The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Ideas

• Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Fighting, Offensive

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

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Want

  Judy Blume (2014). “Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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

  Judy Blume

  Book, Thinking, Creative

• In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Daughter, New York

• I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.

  Judy Blume

  Memories, Book, Writing

  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

• 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, Writing, Challenges

  "Judy Blume: Often Banned, But Widely Beloved". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

• I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Judy Blume’s Online Chat for the New York Public Library". www.judyblume.com. November 19, 2002.

• 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

• 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 fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Library, Four

• 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, Editors, Titles

• I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Important

• I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Sick

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

• I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Love Picture, Book

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

• I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kind

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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