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Writing Quotes by Judy Blume
- The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
- When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
- Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
- I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
- The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
- 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.
- When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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