Karrine Steffans Quotes

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

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

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

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

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I write every night.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

I write - and then I write some more.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.