Judy Blume Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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• I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Fearless, Fearful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

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• Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

  Judy Blume

  Kids, Littles, Able

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Dec 17, 2012

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• [When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

  Judy Blume

  Kids, Dolls, Boards

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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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• 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

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• I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.

  Judy Blume

  Sorry, Regret, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Mar 16, 2013

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• 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

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• 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

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• I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

  Judy Blume

  Tired, People, Young

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• 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, Children, Thinking

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

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• I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

  Judy Blume

  Bullying, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

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• [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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

  Judy Blume

  Daughter, Bullying, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• [Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Changed, Changed My Life

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

  Judy Blume

  Pain, Causes, Deny

  Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.347, Delta

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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

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• I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Two, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Book, Anxiety

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

  Judy Blume

  New York, Reviews, Knows

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

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