Judy Blume Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Want

  Judy Blume (2014). “Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

• I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Together, Pieces

• When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Changed, Changing My Life

  Interview with Lena Dunham, www.dazeddigital.com. January 20, 2014.

• I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Kids

• I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

  Judy Blume

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

• I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Fearless, Fearful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Listening, Teach

• The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Care

• I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Writing, School

• [Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Changed, Changed My Life

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

• I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, One Day, Stories

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

  Judy Blume

  Bullying, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Writing, Years

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

• I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Fiction

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

  Judy Blume

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

• With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.

  Judy Blume

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

  Judy Blume

  Morning, Writing, Character

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

• 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.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Important

• I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Judy Blume’s Online Chat for the New York Public Library". www.judyblume.com. November 19, 2002.

• It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  "Judy Blume: Often Banned, But Widely Beloved". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

• I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

  Judy Blume

  Block, Believe, Good Day

  "Judy Blume’s Online Chat for the New York Public Library". www.judyblume.com. November 19, 2002.

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