Top 100 Judy Blume Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.
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#3. It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart
even when I'm sure I will.
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#4. It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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#5. My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... "
"Life should be more than keeping busy."
"Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.
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#8. Cut you in half then I'd have a half-brother!
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#9. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.
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#10. Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.
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#11. 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 ...
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#12. There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.'
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#15. Berman's foot measure. Then he turned it around and I put my right foot in. That's another reason why my mother thinks Mr. Berman is good at selling
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#17. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
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#18. Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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#19. ...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.
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#20. When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her.
'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?'
'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his job to help you through it.
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#21. When I heard that I got so mad I kicked a closet
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#22. 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?
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#23. As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke!
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#25. Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?
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#26. You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
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#29. 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!
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#30. What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
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#31. A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.
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#32. We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come?
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#33. You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up ... tomorrow you'll be an expert.
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#35. Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
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#36. Sometimes spending a lot of time together can end a romance faster than anything else.
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#37. I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
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#38. I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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#39. If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at an early age. Twelve is very late to learn.
Sincerely, Margaret Ann Simon
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#40. [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.
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#41. 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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#42. When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.
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#43. The best books come from someplace deep inside ... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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#44. Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.
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#45. Moms come up to me at book signings.
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#46. This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
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#48. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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#49. I love you, Michael Wagner."
"Forever?" he asked.
"Forever," I said.
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#50. I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best ... once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
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#51. Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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?
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.
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#58. Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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#59. Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?
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#60. 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.
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#61. Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Sometimes she wished she were a little kid again. Everything was so simple then. Now she never knew when she was going to find out something terrible, something she didn't want to know. Sometimes her jaw ached in the morning. She wondered if Princess Elizabeth's jaw ever ached.
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#65. 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.
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#66. In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
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#69. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
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#70. I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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#71. Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
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#72. Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
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#73. A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
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#74. Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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#77. If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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#78. 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.
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#79. Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?'
'I'm not sure ... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.
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#80. Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.
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#81. because everyone knew you knitted argyle socks only for a boyfriend.
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#82. You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?" "Everything but us.
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#83. Precious Child ... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.
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#84. 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.
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#85. I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four ...
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#86. When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
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#87. I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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#88. Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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#89. I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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#90. Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.
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#91. We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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#92. Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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#93. Miri, sweetheart - life is hard," Henry said, "but it's worth the struggle.
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#94. I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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#95. My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
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#96. Without peanut butter, I might starve.
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#97. dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on
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#98. 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.
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#99. I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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#100. Jennie had a big smile on her face. Next thing I knew there was a puddle on
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