Lauren Kate Quotes

After raising twins, you get organized.

I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy.

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.

I am a working mom, so to be able to have a space for my kids as well as a space for my work, it's just great. That is what balance is.

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

The minute I had him, my son, I realized that I had to just time-manage in a way that I never had to before.

There is a right time for everything. There was a time when I wanted to settle down and have a family. I wanted to give time to my kids. I had worked for nearly 19 years when I got married.