Judy Blume Quotes

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.' You're really just throwing mud at the wall and then going, 'Oh, there's a pattern there.'

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.