Desks Quote by Karen Russell

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

— Brad Barkley

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper,…

— Kaye Dacus

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to…

— Peter Heller

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

— Eric Van Lustbader

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it,…

— Paul Simon

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

— Bonnie McKee

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers…

— Augusten Burroughs

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

— Zoe Kazan

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're…

— Irvine Welsh