Judy Blume

“My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.”

“I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.”

“I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home!”

“A good writer is always a people watcher.”

“I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'”

“My husband is a feminist!”

“If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?”

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

“I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.”

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

“As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.”

“Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.”

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

“I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.”

“I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.”

“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.”

“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 very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.”

“My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.”

“When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.”