Basements Quote by Haruki Murakami

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

— Heidi Julavits

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

— John Sandford

I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are…

— Lawrence Osborne

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral…

— Karen Russell

I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and…

— Renee Watson

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But…

— Ai Qing

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

— Lois Lowry

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart…

— Will Hobbs

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

“The most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room. The great temptation is to leave…

— Ron Carlson