Sage Advice Before NaNoWriMo: Judy Blume

Where do you get your ideas?
I used to be afraid to answer that question. I thought if I ever figured it out I’d never have another one! But now I know that ideas come from everywhere—memories of my own life, incidents in my children’s lives, what I see and hear and read—and most of all, from my imagination.

via Judy Blume on the Web: Questions for Judy.