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Judy Blume

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...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

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Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

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Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

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I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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I love to watch movies.

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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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