110+ Judy Blume Quotes On Friendship, Writing And Reading

Judy Blume is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. She is best known for her books Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blubber, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Her books often deal with issues of adolescence, such as bullying, racism, and divorce. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Judy Blume on friendship, writing, reading.

Top 10 Judy Blume Quotes

1. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
2. 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.
3. My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
4. Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
5. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
6. We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
7. Snoring keeps the monsters away.
8. A good writer is always a people watcher.
9. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
10. Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

Judy Blume Short Quotes

• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
• The truth will make you odd.
• My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
• We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.
• I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
• Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
• That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
• I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
• our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
• I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

Judy Blume Quotes About Writing

I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can. — Judy Blume

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them. — Judy Blume

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. — Judy Blume

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. — Judy Blume

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside. — Judy Blume

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life. — Judy Blume

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. — Judy Blume

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both. — Judy Blume

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying. — Judy Blume

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again. — Judy Blume

Judy Blume Quotes About Reading

[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. — Judy Blume

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. — Judy Blume

I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve. — Judy Blume

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. — Judy Blume

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." — Judy Blume

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read. — Judy Blume

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That." — Judy Blume

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading. — Judy Blume

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading. — 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

Judy Blume Quotes About Censorship

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage. — Judy Blume

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear. — Judy Blume

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

Judy Blume Quotes About Books

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life. — Judy Blume

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not. — Judy Blume

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one. — Judy Blume

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older. — Judy Blume

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons. — Judy Blume

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad. — Judy Blume

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing. — Judy Blume

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books. — Judy Blume

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone. — Judy Blume

The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books. — Judy Blume

Judy Blume Quotes About Read

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it. — Judy Blume

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this. — Judy Blume

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. — Judy Blume

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. — Judy Blume

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. — Judy Blume

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem! — Judy Blume

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too. — Judy Blume

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance! — Judy Blume

Judy Blume Quotes About Parents

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way. — Judy Blume

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend. — Judy Blume

Caitlyn 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. — Judy Blume

Judy Blume Famous Quotes And Sayings

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it. — Judy Blume

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad! — Judy Blume

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult. — Judy Blume

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays. — Judy Blume

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever. — Judy Blume

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together! — Judy Blume

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade. — Judy Blume

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said. — Judy Blume

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! — Judy Blume

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job. — Judy Blume

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture. — Judy Blume

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination! — Judy Blume

A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down. — Judy Blume

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

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers. — Judy Blume

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope. — Judy Blume

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write. — Judy Blume

A person without curiosity may as well be dead. — Judy Blume

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings. — Judy Blume

"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them. — Judy Blume

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us. — Judy Blume

"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started. — Judy Blume

I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs. — Judy Blume

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us. — Judy Blume

It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way. — Judy Blume

We must, we must, we must increase our bust. — Judy Blume

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life. — Judy Blume

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything. — Judy Blume

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything. — Judy Blume

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? — Judy Blume

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny. — Judy Blume

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry? — Judy Blume

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. — Judy Blume

Determination and hard work are as important as talent. — Judy Blume

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth. — Judy Blume

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning? — Judy Blume

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title. — Judy Blume

I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning. — Judy Blume

In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.' — Judy Blume

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this. — Judy Blume

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever. — Judy Blume

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

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination. — Judy Blume

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget. — Judy Blume

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 — Judy Blume

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. — Judy Blume

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing. — Judy Blume

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed. — Judy Blume

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end? — Judy Blume

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. — Judy Blume

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands — Judy Blume

I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you. — Judy Blume

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. — Judy Blume

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four. — Judy Blume

I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time. — Judy Blume

[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry. — Judy Blume

I love to watch movies. — Judy Blume

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail. — Judy Blume

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid. — Judy Blume

I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas. — Judy Blume

Life Lessons by Judy Blume

1. Judy Blume's work teaches us that it is important to be honest with ourselves and others about our feelings and experiences.
2. She also emphasizes the importance of standing up for yourself and having the courage to be yourself.
3. Through her stories, she encourages us to embrace our own unique identity and to take risks in order to grow and learn.