Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
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!
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 always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'
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This is why you never go to New Jersey!
The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.
I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.
You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!
Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 21
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.
Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Act on inspiration when it strikes.
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.
Joe Biden - August 2024
I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.
Ozzy Man Reviews - August 2024
I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.
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