Lauren Weisberger Quotes

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

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.

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

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

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

I make time to write.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

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 often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

I get up very early and write a lot.

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.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

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.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.