Judy Blume Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Kids, Needs

• Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Book, Reading

• [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

  Real, Book, Fire

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013

• The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Ideas

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

  Judy Blume

  Book, Fighting, Offensive

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

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Want

  Judy Blume (2014). “Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

• I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Love Picture, Book

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

• I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kind

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Interesting, Clubs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

• Moms come up to me at book signings.

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Book, Come Up

• I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

• I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

  Judy Blume

  Horse, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Scary, Bans

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• [With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Book, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Book, Reading

• My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Character

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Jan 31, 2012

• Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

• I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Class, Shy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

  Judy Blume

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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