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
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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.
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]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.
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.
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 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.
A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.