Judy Blume

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

The truth will make you odd.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

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.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

We are friends for life. When we__e together the years fall away. Isn__ that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you__e come?

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

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.

I love to watch movies.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.