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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. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #back #box #cereal #child

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#benefits #compete #does #gets #gives

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. ↗

— Judy Blume

#babies #before #bit #care #college

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. ↗

— Judy Blume

#back #go #i #i think #into

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#i #like #movie #movies #simple

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. ↗

— Judy Blume

#everything #everywhere #hear #i #i see

I'm just passionately in love with my kids. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#just #kids #love #passionately

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. ↗

— Judy Blume

#fire #just #me #never #now

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. ↗

— Judy Blume

#child #i #interests #like #me

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just