Bent Quote by Eric Idle

I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and…

— Philip Pullman

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

— Sloane Crosley

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Eric Schlosser

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

— Hilary Mantel

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to…

— Peter Heller

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

“I’ve heard rumors that writing can feel glamorous. But only glamorous, I’d guess, in the way a stretch limo might feel glamorous. No matter…

— Durga Chew-Bose

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

— Paul McCartney

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics…

— Guy Gavriel Kay