Air Quote by Anonymous

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

— Franz Kafka

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

— Jason Gann

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that…

— Peter York

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

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

— Megan Abbott

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

Books do furnish a room.

— Anthony Powell

“Find room in your heart, and space on your bookshelf, for new authors.”

— Richard Abbott-Brailey

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower…

— David McCord