Judy Blume Quotes About Writing
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
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When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
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I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
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I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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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.
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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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.
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I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
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I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.
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I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.
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I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!
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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.
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With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.
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