Judy Blume
26 quotes
Biography
Judith Marcia Blume is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction. She began writing in 1959 and has published more than 26 novels.
"Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch."
"My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it."
"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."
"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."
"The truth will make you odd."
"Snoring keeps the monsters away."
"Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret...."
"We must — we must — we must increase our bust!"
"But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?"
"My parents raised me, of course, but it was a different adult who shaped my mental landscape. My imagination, my capacity for empathy, my sense of curiosity and my awareness that, while I was unique, I wasn't alone: others felt the same fears and feelings as me. On top of all that, this woman taught me about menstruation, masturbation, making out and sex, which is a damned sight more than any teacher ever did. I was not the only one she took under her wing: there are millions and millions of us who were shaped by her – whole generations who grew up under her tutelage – because this woman is Judy Blume."
"The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."
"Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination."
"I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning."
"What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters."
"I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them."
"We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?"
"Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person."
"I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life."
"Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need"
"My only advice is to stay aware listen carefully and yell for help if you need it."
"I love to watch movies."
"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me."
"Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty."
"I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular."