359 Quotes by Judy Blume

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

The '50s were a secretive time.

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.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

You're supposed to be challenged in college.

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.

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.