Karen Robards Quotes

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.

I write constantly about everything.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I am always trying to write.

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after.

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

I write every day.

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.