American - Author | February 12, 1938 -
I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.
Judy Blume
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I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.
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The '50s were a secretive time.
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My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.
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You're supposed to be challenged in college.
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We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.
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I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
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I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
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I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.
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I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'
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My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
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Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'
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