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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.


Karen Robards

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E. L. DOCTOROW I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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LORRIE MOORE Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.
CHRISTINE J. GILBERT I didn't just want to sit and suck my thumb and write.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I wr...
GEORGE ORWELL When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
TOM ROBBINS I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in ...
IAN FLEMING When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever wr...
STEVE MALCHOW My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a ye...
CYNTHIA VOIGT When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is m...
PAUL THEROUX My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
ROBERT WILSON When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
ZACK SNYDER When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting...
JULIA CAMERON Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to wri...
MALCOLM COWLEY Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings,...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm play...
ISAAC BROCK I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
MEG ROSOFF Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
EDWARD BOND I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering...
BRITNEY SPEARS I sit down to write a song and it's just me just trying to be as honest as I can for myself and to s...
TRENT REZNOR No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always f...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
WILLIAM COBBETT Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read...
AARON SWARTZ I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
JACKIE COLLINS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
JACKIE COLLINS I then plan to seclude myself and write a book about my experience,
ERIC LATHAM At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to...
ASHWIN SANGHI I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet poin...
KATHY GRIFFIN I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walk...
VALERIE JUNE Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book ...
AUDRINA PATRIDGE I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and force...
STEVEN WRIGHT I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri...
AARON NEVILLE I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r...
ANTONY BEEVOR I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and K...
DENIS O'HARE I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&...
LIAM GALLAGHER I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a...
NATALIE GOLDBERG I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book ...
LAURA EVANS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno...
A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
DAVE HAYWOOD I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what ...
ALAN ZWEIBEL The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time...
JAMES ROLLINS It's so funny. Every time I sit down in the classroom, my book bag rings and it's my cell phone, and...
EMILY ROSSUM You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. Tha...
STORMZY When I do dig down, I'm very [irritated] underneath, ... Why can't I just write a book about taking ...
RICHARD HELL I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped...
JOHN DARNIELLE How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you wri...
KATE DICAMILLO First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
C. DAY LEWIS I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
LARRY HAGMAN Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' -...
RANDALL MUNROE To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers t...
NEEL MUKHERJEE I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
CHARLIE HADEN Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my...
IMOGEN HEAP I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down t...
ALEX GARLAND I've basically been trying to get the plays down and my conditioning up at the same time. Just being...
AMOS ZEREOUE I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ...
TED BELL I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I...
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ROLF AND RANGER My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo...
DAVID LEVITHAN I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge ...
SARAH KEDDAR When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're no...
DAVID GUTERSON Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in lov...
STEPHEN FRY My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
CLIVE CUSSLER I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feel...
COREY HAIM I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. ...
DAVID COOK Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
TAMA JANOWITZ I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do...
JOHN SAYLES There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af...
CONNOR FRANTA I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out fo...
ADRIAN MCKINTY I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
EDWARD P. JONES Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa...
JACK WHITEHALL What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ...
LUANNE RICE Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i...
TOM PETERS This is my 25th book over 28 years, and to still be able to write a book and be a best seller again ...
TERRY BROOKS One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I...
JOHN BURNSIDE We just think that Karen Jones is an angel in disguise, ... This is just a huge help to us.
RONALD MCDONALD I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
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KAREN DUFFY I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow a...
KAREN DUFFY In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to ge...
KAREN DUFFY I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-h...
KAREN DUFFY My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my s...
KAREN DUFFY Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.
KAREN DUFFY In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to...
KAREN DUFFY A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn'...
KAREN DUFFY The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not ab...
KAREN DUFFY It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
KAREN DUFFY I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
KAREN DUFFY I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds o...
KAREN DUFFY Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
KAREN DUFFY I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't tak...
KAREN DUFFY I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some...
KAREN DUFFY The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual ch...
KAREN DUFFY It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
KAREN DUFFY When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ...
KAREN BLIXEN If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
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