Top 124 Quotes by Judy Blume

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that.

After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.