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 person without curiosity may as well be dead.
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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.
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!
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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.
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.
I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.