Judy Blume Quotes

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

There is no story unless you've written it.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

I always write a story in one sitting.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.