Quote by Henning Mankell

“paper from the drawer and started to write:”

— Catherine Woods

“ . . . he thought how easy it would be to simply kick his typewriter onto the floor and smash it to pieces…

— Bodie Thoene

“When we started walking to the computer room, I thought I was pretty prepared because I had managed to withdraw the balled-up outline worksheet…

— Emma Rathbone

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here,…

— Martine Bailey

“Drafts would be written out in his hunched cursive, the words growing fatter as his pencil dulled against the page.”

— Brian Jay Jones

“Or maybe you know how two-hundred Post-it notes with pictures of penises drawn on them were glued to every inch of my desk.”

— Tara Sivec

“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.”

— Françoise Sagan

“With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight. He scanned the room…

— Karen Witemeyer

“We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.”

— John Larkin

“Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation…

— John Brooks