Judith Viorst

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear…

— Judith Viorst

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the…

— Judith Viorst

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in…

— Judith Viorst

“I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's…

— Judith Viorst

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her…

— Judith Viorst

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any…

— Judith Viorst

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any…

— Judith Viorst

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways,…

— Judith Viorst

“We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scraps…

— Judith Viorst

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry…

— Judith Viorst

Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write…

— Judith Viorst

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew…

— Judith Viorst

“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother…

— Judith Viorst

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped…

— Judith Viorst

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place…

— Judith Viorst

Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes…

— Judith Viorst

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste…

— Judith Viorst

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street,…

— Judith Viorst

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed…

— Judith Viorst

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is…

— Judith Viorst

Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader,…

— Judith Viorst

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

— Judith Viorst

A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the…

— Judith Viorst

My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry,…

— Judith Viorst

The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having…

— Judith Viorst

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of…

— Judith Viorst

Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly…

— Judith Viorst

Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I…

— Judith Viorst

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car.…

— Judith Viorst

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one…

— Judith Viorst

“It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or…

— Judith Viorst

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror…

— Judith Viorst

“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of…

— Judith Viorst

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

— Judith Viorst

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our…

— Judith Viorst

I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by…

— Judith Viorst

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of…

— Judith Viorst

'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and…

— Judith Viorst