When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
Judy BlumeRead
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Reading fosters a love for learning in children and encourages exploration.
In this quote, Judy Blume emphasizes the importance of instilling a love for reading in children. She suggests that when children enjoy reading, they will seek out various forms of text, even the mundane, as part of their learning journey, highlighting the joy and curiosity that reading can inspire from an early age.
Themes
ReadingChildrenEducationLiteracyCuriosity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can inspire parents during a school open house.
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What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.
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Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
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I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
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Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.
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