Top 124 Quotes by Judy Blume

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

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.

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!

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication.

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.