Judith Viorst Quotes

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

What writing does is to reveal.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

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