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Lauren DeStefano Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn’t know that I had it in me to fool myself.”
— Lauren DeStefano, Wither
Tagged: Pretending You're Fine, I Hate Myself, Lying To Myself
“I miss something I never even had.”
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Tagged: Loss
“I think she’s brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever(Chemical Garden)
Tagged: Bravery, Believing In Yourself, Listener
“The way you moved, this blur of fight and blood and muscle. You just appeared, and the world changed.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“He stood in a beam of light, assessing her as though she were something he'd just extracted from the smoke of his cauldron.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Just as there was something in her blood that made her deadly, there was something else that called to him.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“If you have a story to tell, tell it. Full stop. Speed up and hit those doubts and fears with your brain car.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“The job of an author is to be omniscient. To be in the heads of every character. It's not a task an author can take on alone.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“When you write outside your experience, you aren't inviting others into your house. You're inviting yourself into theirs.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writing Tips
“Writing is scary. Learning it's wrong is scary. Fixing it is scary. But ignoring these things is failing your readers, your book, and you.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writing Tips
“Don't waste time being too proud to tell people what they mean to you, especially when they're family. You don't know when time will run out”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Writing is like that old shower at your grandmas house. Either so hot you're on fire or cold like the left kidney of Ebenezer Scrooge.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“I love this story I'm writing. It's the star in my sky, the sugar in my tea, the panic in my attacks.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writing
“I never understood that game where you choose one person to be stuck on an island with. Defeats the purpose of a perfectly good island.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“The only cure for a book hangover is another book that gives you a book hangover.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“When people say anxiety isn't real, I wish I could give them mine for 2 seconds. It wouldn't take longer than that.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“I don't want to be in love. I want to read about fictional people who are in love and wish I had what they have.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Sometimes my depression makes me want to cry for no reason, and then my anxiety is like "here are some reasons, buddy."”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Being a writer is like having the ability to fly but being really scared of heights.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Write like your family will never read it.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Just read a news article about a woman who successfully trained squirrels to attack her ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile what am I doing with my life?”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Anyone else daydream about how the characters from your favorite book would never treat you the way a nonfictional person just did?”
— Lauren DeStefano
“I wish I could write a tragedy as dramatic as my cat when I'm 5 minutes late with his food.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“You can own the cat but the cat will own you, and your home, and also you can’t own the cat.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“If you have a good book, you'll never be alone. Because someone will always try to talk to you the second you start reading it.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Writing comes down to one basic test: can you operate your writing device of choice while crying?”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Several fictional people were harmed in the making of this book.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Adulthood is just like childhood except you can use a calculator whenever you want.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Deadline writing is 99% procrastinating and then 1% oh crap where did the time go I'm in trouble.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Deadline Writing, Writing Problems
“Life's too short to be friends with people who tell you to crate your pets when they come to visit.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“There are no do-overs in life. Unless you're writing a novel, in which case you have to do everything over six thousand times.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“A great book is like a warm hug. A hug that snakes around your back and stabs you in the kidney just when you'd learned to feel love.”
— Lauren DeStefano
“Everybody cries.
"Even writers?"
No, writers emit a high pitched wail of pained despair that causes whales to swim backwards for one week.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: writer
“When I write, I feel like I don't understand life. When I edit, I feel like I don't understand writing.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writing, Writing Problems
“Sometimes you have to write the wrong thing before you figure out the right thing. So I've got step one covered...”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice
“Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt.”
— Lauren DeStefano
Tagged: Writer Problems
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
— Lauren DeStefano, Wither
Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
— Lauren DeStefano, Wither (Chemical Garden)
Tagged: Autumn Love
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