Judy Blume Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

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

  Judy Blume

  Character, Friends For Life

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

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

  Judy Blume

  Character, Library, Never Forget

• Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Ideas

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

  Judy Blume

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• 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.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Character, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

  Judy Blume

  Character, Ideas, Plot

• 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.

  Judy Blume

  Morning, Writing, Character

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

• My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Character

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Jan 31, 2012

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