Bed Quote by A. E. Hotchner

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a…

— Edward Albee

“But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with…

— Clancy Sigal

When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or…

— Jill Talbot

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

— Justin Cronin

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a…

— Charles Bukowski

“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct…

— Gerald Hausman

“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical or worse…

— Rebecca Makkai

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit…

— Alberto Manguel

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for…

— Conrad Aiken

The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night. He was a staffer…

— Giles Coren

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka