Judy Blume
Judy Blume
Judy Blumeis an American writer known for children's and young adultfiction. Some of her best known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Deenie, and Blubber. The New Yorker has called her books "talismans that, for a significant segment of the American female population, marked the passage from childhood to adolescence."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth12 February 1938
CityElizabeth, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...
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.
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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.
I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because 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.
It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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.
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.
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.
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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.