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. – Judy Blume
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. – Judy Blume
When I’m writing a book, you can’t think about your audience. You’re going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You’re got to write from deep inside. – Judy Blume
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I’m writing. – Judy Blume
As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. – Judy Blume
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear. – Judy Blume
By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents’ books because there weren’t teenage books then. – Judy Blume
I loved ‘Moneyball,’ I thought that was a great Hollywood movie. I like baseball, but I don’t know that you have to like baseball to like that. I thought it was really well done. – Judy Blume
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. – Judy Blume
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. – Judy Blume
When I was first writing, my little prayers were, ‘Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.’ Then it went to, ‘Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.’ – Judy Blume
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. – Judy Blume
I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! – Judy Blume
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.’ – Judy Blume
It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. – Judy Blume
I don’t think it’s realistic to say kids shouldn’t watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don’t become couch potatoes! – Judy Blume
Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that’s where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for ‘Tiger Eyes.’ – Judy Blume
I’m very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don’t push me. Because I don’t take that well. – Judy Blume
You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don’t have enough time to just sit and daydream. – Judy Blume