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
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... 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.
I love to watch movies.
You'd think he was the first person to ever lose a tooth!
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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'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.