Discreet Quote by James Thurber

“She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn’t publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to…

— Eve Babitz

“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

“I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone…It might have happened sooner [the…

— Katherine Paterson

“Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.”

— Gao Xingjian

“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time and time…

— Lawrence Durrell

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the…

— Gavin Maxwell

“This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy…

— Don DeLillo

“Once you are truly seduced by profession of writing, you clock in one time…and never clock out. You dwell in a creative space with…

— Carl Henegan

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

— Truman Capote