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Judith Viorst Quotes

American - Author | February 2, 1932 -

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

People Influence Think Loved Garden

Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.

Me Nobody Flexible Call Would Knows

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.

Best Writing Feel You I Can Place

Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.

Children Dirty Angels My Own Names

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

Mother People Think Early Page Up

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

One Word Always Well Get Word Tried

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

Inside Everything Us Going Been

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Me Window Writing Perfect Understand

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Life Father Mother Poetry Child Me

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

Thoughts Feelings Down Paper Take

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.

People Me Writing Connection Want

Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.

Book Thought Laugh Write Starting

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