Come Quote by Jason Katims

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

— Gunter Grass

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture…

— Adam Haslett

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world,…

— Pete Wentz

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to employ new…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my…

— Lauren Groff