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
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When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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.
But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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 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!
Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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.
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.