Judy Blume Quotes

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I prefer writing originals.

Writers are so important.

I write novels and other things.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I don't call myself a writer.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.