359 Quotes by Judy Blume

It's very foolish to laugh if you don't know what's funny in the first place.

I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

The best way to learn a foreign language is to fuck interesting foreigners.

Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her. 'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?''It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his Job to help you through it.” ― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.