Judy Blume Quotes

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

~ Judy Blume

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

~ Judy Blume

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

~ Judy Blume

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.

~ Judy Blume

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

~ Judy Blume

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

~ Judy Blume

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

~ Judy Blume

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

~ Judy Blume

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

~ Judy Blume

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

~ Judy Blume

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.

~ Judy Blume

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

~ Judy Blume

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

~ Judy Blume

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

~ Judy Blume

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

~ Judy Blume

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

~ Judy Blume

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

~ Judy Blume

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

~ Judy Blume

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...

~ Judy Blume

hi I hope u want to be my friends

~ Judy Blume

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

~ Judy Blume

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

~ Judy Blume

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

~ Judy Blume

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.

~ Judy Blume

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

~ Judy Blume

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

~ Judy Blume

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

~ Judy Blume

I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.

~ Judy Blume

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

~ Judy Blume

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

~ 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 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.

~ Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

~ Judy Blume

I love to watch movies.

~ Judy Blume

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.

~ Judy Blume