Lauren Conrad Quotes

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

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

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I make time to write.

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.