About Quote by Claire Tomalin

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting…

— Tom Brokaw

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And…

— Dick Morris

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

— Mohsin Hamid

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

— Jesse Ball

I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people…

— Bei Dao

“Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have…

— Zadie Smith

I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but…

— E. B. White

I think especially in academia, we are coached to go the route of paying to submit our writing to small publications, like the presses…

— Stephanie Land

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

— Teju Cole

I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room…

— Lauren Mayberry

“The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took…

— Danielle Steel

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of…

— Patricia MacLachlan