Judy Blume Quotes

I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

I hate writing.

I have no literary fears.

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.