After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.
From Judy Blume
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
I don't want to repeat myself.
I'm not good at keeping secrets.
I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.
By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.
I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.
I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?
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