American - Author | February 12, 1938 -
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
Judy Blume
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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
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I love to watch movies.
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
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When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
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In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.
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I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
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As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.
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The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians.
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