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In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

~Judy Blume

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I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

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I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it.

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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.

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When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

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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.

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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.

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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

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My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.

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The '50s were a secretive time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 12th, 1938

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