Laura van den Berg Quotes

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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

I just write from dawn to dusk.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

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.

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

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

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

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

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

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.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

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

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

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.

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 write slowly and get distracted a lot.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

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.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.