When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I’m happy to say, is – they’re the ‘Betsy-Tacy’ books. – Judy Blume
Parents still have a big influence on their kids – just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It’s how they learn to love and treat other people. – Judy Blume
I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. – Judy Blume
I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don’t because I’ve developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I’m OK. – Judy Blume
Ideas seem to come from everywhere – my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. – Judy Blume
My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can’t imagine what you life is going to be like. – Judy Blume
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That’s why I wrote ‘Smart Women.’ I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids. – Judy Blume
My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, ‘Life goes on.’ – Judy Blume
At the time I wrote ‘Forever,’ I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. – Judy Blume
After each book, I get panicky. I don’t love the reviews. I don’t like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I’d have got the hang of it. – Judy Blume
My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! – Judy Blume