Judy Blume Thoughts

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

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.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.