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
Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
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
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.
She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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.
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.
My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
Moms come up to me at book signings.
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.
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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.