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
A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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.
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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.
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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.
I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.