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My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

— Anonymous

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

— Anais Nin

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

— Brad Barkley

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

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down…

— Anthony Horowitz

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

— Chad Harbach

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing…

— Barbara Corcoran

“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I…

— Charles Finch

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain…

— Colm Toibin

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't…

— Stephen King

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you…

— Anne Lamott