Laini Taylor Quotes

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

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit.' I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

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.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.