Top 100 Quotes About Judy Blume
#1. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.
Jeff Kinney
#2. From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk
Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports ... At this point I am an authority on menstruation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R.L. Stine
#4. Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.
Willa Holland
#5. Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.
Sara Shepard
#6. Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
Jenny Han
#7. Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.
Ken Marino
#8. Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
Diablo Cody
#9. The first thing I learned from Judy Blume was that God is the wrong one to ask for bigger breasts. (Stephanie Lessing)
Jennifer O'Connell
#10. For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#11. Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.
Jami Attenberg
#12. As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.
Marlee Matlin
#13. It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
Emma McLaughlin
#14. Dear Judy Blume, why didn't you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.
Karen Amanda Hooper
#15. I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
James Dashner
#16. Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
Alison Bechdel
#17. I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!
Rebecca Stead
#18. Seriously, I'm totally weirded out by the girly nature of this conversation. And yet, it's kinda like you're growing up. Do you think Judy Blume made a book about adolescent vampires? Are You There God, It's Me, Merit? Mallory snorted, obviously pleased with herself.
Chloe Neill
#19. 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
#20. 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.
Judy Blume
#21. It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart
even when I'm sure I will.
Judy Blume
#22. It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
Judy Blume
#23. topped with whipped cream, chopped nuts
Judy Blume
#24. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
Judy Blume
#25. My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
Judy Blume
#26. 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.
Judy Blume
#27. 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.
Judy Blume
#28. Cut you in half then I'd have a half-brother!
Judy Blume
#29. 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.
Judy Blume
#30. Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.
Judy Blume
#31. 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 ...
Judy Blume
#32. There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.
Judy Blume
#33. Sex is a commitment ... Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands ... and when you give yourself both mentally and physically ... well, you're completely vulnerable.
Judy Blume
#34. 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.
Judy Blume
#35. 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.
Judy Blume
#36. Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume
#37. 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
#38. 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
Judy Blume
#40. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
Judy Blume
#41. Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.
Judy Blume
#42. 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.
Judy Blume
#43. 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.
Judy Blume
#45. ...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.
Judy Blume
#46. 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
#47. a real sport." The waiter popped the cork and
Judy Blume
#48. 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.
Judy Blume
#49. As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?
Judy Blume
#50. When I heard that I got so mad I kicked a closet
Judy Blume
#51. 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?
Judy Blume
#52. 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
#53. 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!
Judy Blume
#54. 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
#56. Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?
Judy Blume
#57. Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
Judy Blume
#58. You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
Judy Blume
#59. 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
#60. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#61. 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!
Judy Blume
#62. What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
Judy Blume
#63. I can't think when you're in here," he said.
"What do you have to think about?"
"Making!
Judy Blume
#64. Some people never get over their first loves. They spend their whole lives trying to recapture the thrill. Sometimes, after fifty years they get back together. They meet at some reunion or other and realize they were meant to be together.
Judy Blume
#65. That's not a bad word ... hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
Judy Blume
#66. A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.
Judy Blume
#67. How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.
Judy Blume
#68. But you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.
Judy Blume
#69. 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?
Judy Blume
#71. 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.
Judy Blume
#72. 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
#73. No place has delicatessen like New York.
Judy Blume
#75. Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
Judy Blume
#76. Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
Judy Blume
#77. Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
Judy Blume
#78. 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.
Judy Blume
#79. I twirl my ring and think about what Judy has tried so hard to say: You are not any one thing. You are many. Don't let them make you believe that this is an either/or world.
- Laura Ruby
Jennifer O'Connell
#80. Sometimes spending a lot of time together can end a romance faster than anything else.
Judy Blume
#81. I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
Judy Blume
#82. 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.
Judy Blume
#83. 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.
Judy Blume
#84. 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.
Judy Blume
#85. 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
Judy Blume
#86. 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.
Judy Blume
#87. [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
#88. 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.
Judy Blume
#89. When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.
Judy Blume
#90. 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
#91. I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.
Judy Blume
#92. Aunt Diana shoved the baby at the Great One.
Judy Blume
#93. Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.
Judy Blume
#94. Moms come up to me at book signings.
Judy Blume
#95. This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
Judy Blume
#97. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Judy Blume
#98. I love you, Michael Wagner."
"Forever?" he asked.
"Forever," I said.
Judy Blume
#99. 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.
Judy Blume
#100. 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
Judy Blume
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