359 Quotes by Judy Blume

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.