Top 124 Quotes by Judy Blume

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.

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.

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.'