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 BlumeThe only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy BlumeI thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
Judy Blume