Top 10 Lauren Kate Quotes

At some point, I fell in love. Shortly thereafter, I got my heart broken. Sniff, sniff. And I realized at a young age – no matter what any adult literary critic would have us believe about female strength and autonomy – there is no test to strength of character like love.

When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I’m thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn’t imagined.

I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can’t sleep.

My process has changed in recent years because I now have two young kids. I have to be more regimented. The days are very short.

Olivia Hussey from Zefferelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There’s something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

I believe love’s grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.

Steve McQueen from ‘The Getaway’ is tough and independent. He can be diffident but is unabashed when it comes to love. And he‘s undeniably sexy.

I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love revising and hate first drafts. I have to wear bedroom slippers. My current favorites come from the Zetter Hotel in London. They have little tobacco pipes on the toes.

It’s worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?