Been Quote by Alan Garner

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

— Megan Abbott

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television…

— Ed Brubaker

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months…

— Robin Sloan

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I…

— Steve Berry

Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or…

— Kenya Barris

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

— Richard LaGravenese

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison

I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair…

— Eric Schlosser