Judy Blume Quotes

No place has delicatessen like New York.

You weren't always born to the right parents. And parents didn't necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.

Sometimes spending a lot of time together can end a romance faster than anything else.

hi I hope u want to be my friends

It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.

How can I stop worrying when I don't know if I'm going to turn out normal?" "I promise, you'll turn out normal." Are

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come?

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

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.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

I love to watch movies.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Understand that you're sensitive." Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. "Is that like saying I'm dramatic, or crazy?" Miri was careful now. "Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it's definitely not as bad as crazy.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

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

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.'

So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning them on.

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.

Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.

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

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

He even brags about his poops,

He couldn't help himself. He loved us, Francie, more than anything,

I can't think when you're in here," he said.
"What do you have to think about?"
"Making!

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever ...

There's a brown leather section, a green leather section, a red leather section and a tan leather section. Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, all in a row. And everywhere you look there are fireplaces. There's one in every bedroom, there's one in the living room, another in the dining room and still another in the library. There aren't any in the bathrooms or the kitchen. My mother and father call the

I love to watch to him while he sleeps. Besides everything else he is really my best friend now. It's a different kind of friendship ... It makes me wish I could share every day with him.

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.

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.'
So do girls, Miri thought.

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

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!

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.

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.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

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.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Trouble in our family is spelled with a capital C and has been as long as I can remember. The C stands for Charles. He's my older brother, two years and four months older to be exact. Ever since the phone call about him last night, I've felt incredibly tense. And now, at this very minute, my parents are driving up to Vermont, to Charles's boarding school, to find out if he's actually been kicked out or if he's just been suspended again. I

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.

How do you stop yourself from worrying?" "I think of all the good things in my life." "What about the bad things?" "There's no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away.

Aunt Diana shoved the baby at the Great One.

But you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.

That's not a bad word ... hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

And now she was going. She was going to walk up the steps leading to the silver bird that would gobble her up, holding her in its belly until it reached its faraway destination, where it would spit her out. In one piece, she hoped.

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Snoring keeps the monsters away.

Not that memories were enough - they didn't keep you warm on a cold winter's night. They couldn't hold you when you were frightened or sad. But they were better than nothing.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

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.

Precious Child ... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.

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.

Nobody ever worries about me the way they worry about Fudge. If I decided not to eat they'd probably never even notice!

We watched as the last

Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

He's not like anything. He's a person who just happens to have been born with something he can't control. It could have happened to you. It could have happened to any of us. So the next time you see someone in a chair, someone spastic, just imagine if that were you! The same you who's standing here now, but your mind's been trapped inside a body you can't control!

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

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

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.

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

Baby Feet (Again) Jimmy

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.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart
even when I'm sure I will.

I want you to know it was no big deal ... those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit ... there's nothing to it ... you just push and push and finally the baby pops out ... to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas ...

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

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

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

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

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.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit!

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Ralph arrived first. He's really fat. And he isn't even four years old. He doesn't say much either. He grunts and grabs a lot, though. Usually his mouth is stuffed full of something.

It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping in bed together.

Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?

This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

Censors don't want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

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.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

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.

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.

Even now she can't decide. She thinks about flipping a coin. Heads she goes, tails she stays. But isn't indecisiveness an early sign of mental illness?

The men of the family had to be vigilant. It was their job to protect the women. That's the way it was, whether the women liked it or not. The family's honor was at stake. No one told him this in so many words, but he understood what his mother expected of him. To be an honorable man. He was his mother's favorite and he knew it. Natalie and Fern were more daddy's girls. He had ten years before he had to worry about Fern. She was just in kindergarten. By then he'd be, what-- twenty-seven, almost twenty-eight? He'd probably be married, maybe with his own kids. Jeez, that was a scary thought.

Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.

You're going to love it."
I nodded and tried to smile back.
"We're getting off at the beginners' slope so you don't have to worry."
"I'm not worried."
"You look scared to death."
"Don't be silly…I can't wait to learn to ski." But I was thinking, we're going up so high…how will I ever get down? My father was right…I am going to break a leg…I am going to fall off this chairlift and break a leg…maybe even two…probably two legs and an arm…possibly more than that even.

When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.