359 Quotes by Judy Blume

I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.

It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.