Judy Blume
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.Collection: Baby
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!Collection: Handwriting
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Growing Up
I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.Collection: Book
My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!Collection: Husband
I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.Collection: Writing
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.Collection: Writing
When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.Collection: Writing
I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.Collection: Stories