Judy Blume Quotes - Page 3

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.