Quotes from Judy Blume

I wear the skirt with boots and a loose white sweater. I have to pick a dozen cat hairs off it. Minka must have been sleeping in my sweater drawer. When I forget to close my dresser drawers she hops right in and makes herself at home.

La vida es una buena aventura," I say, pleased with myself. I have picked up several Spanish phrases and this is one of them. "What does that mean?" Bitsy asks. "It means that life is a good adventure.

But you can't go back. Not ever. You have to pick up the pieces and keep moving ahead.

And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

from someone in the stands. The dog ran onto the field. His leash dragged behind him. "Mookie …" a woman called. "Mookie … come back here!" I tried to catch Mookie. But Mookie was faster than me.

time. Every night I'd wake up to her howls. Turtle, who slept at the

She wiped off the wall with her napkin and told Fudge he was very, very naughty. "Not me," Fudge said. "Not me!

Caitlin isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

For the rest of her life, every lovers' quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.

She said she didn't know it herself until that afternoon when her mother took her to the beauty parlor and had a private talk with Mr. Anthony. Then Mr. Anthony started clipping away and next thing she knew—she had this new haircut. She looked like an elf. It did a lot for her.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

You're supposed to be challenged in college.

I'm an Obama chick.

Moms come up to me at book signings.

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.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

Things change…things happen…things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.

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.

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.'