Quote by Harold Pinter

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

— Hilary Mantel

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

— Chloe Sevigny

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

— Eudora Welty

“Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling,…

— Lance Taubold

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

— Janet Fitch

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

— Tommy Wiseau

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

— Dash Mihok

“The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few…

— Magda M. Olchawska

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was…

— Markus Zusak

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

— Douglas Wilson

“By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat furniture and…

— Joan DeJean