Top 6 Quotes by Karen Karbo

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

Karen Karbo

Block, Trying, Want

There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.

Karen Karbo

Self, Boring, Twits

Karen Karbo (2011). “Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World’S Most Elegant Woman”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Karen Karbo

Fun, Vacation, Two

Karen Karbo (2008). “How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.

Karen Karbo

Queens, Writing, Moon