359 Quotes by Judy Blume

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.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

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.

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.

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.

The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.

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.'

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

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.