Judy Blume Quotes

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.

I look forward and see myself look back.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very long run. I think if a writer is lucky enough to still have a few books around after he's gone, a few that are still being read, then he's accomplished quite a lot.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.