359 Quotes by Judy Blume

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

I'm phobic about thunderstorms.

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?

I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.

I don't want to repeat myself.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.