Judy Garland Quotes

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I write what I'm interested in.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I'm going to make my own story for sure.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I've always been a writer.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

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.