Karen Karbo Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• Si amplía su concepto de diversión más allá de unas vacaciones de dos semanas en Maui, tendrá más posibilidades de divertirse.

  Karen Karbo

  Fun, Vacation, Two

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

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• 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

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• The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

  Karen Karbo

  Long, Pearls, Want

  Karen Karbo (2009). “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman”, p.169, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

  Karen Karbo

  Cousin, Trying, Firsts

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