Top 124 Quotes by Judy Blume

About Judy Blume

These are some quotes by American author Judy Blume Author, who was born on February 12, 1938.

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.

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.

Judy Blume

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Judy Blume

In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

Judy Blume

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

Judy Blume

I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

Judy Blume

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.

Judy Blume

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'

Judy Blume

I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.

I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.

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 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.'

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.'

Judy Blume

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