Judy Blume

Blume, Judy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Tiger Eyes

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Tiger Eyes

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Books Equal Gifts Commercial

  2008, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen The 2nd Annual Quill Awards

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Forever

  1978, role: writer

Famous quotes by Judy Blume:

"You'd think he was the first person to ever lose a tooth!"

"Don't buy anything controversial. We don't want any trouble in our community."

"You mean inside? Or outside?"

"Those who would challenge or ban a book have to find out about it first,"

"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,"

"One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get their very best. Instead their fear, or the fear imposed by the publisher, will limit them. 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."

"Then again, maybe I won't."

"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. I want to be like everyone else."

"My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it."

"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 all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination."

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

"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."

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

"I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head."

"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.'"

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to."