Judy Blume Quotes

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

I spend about a year between novels.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.