Gardening Quote by Marta McDowell

“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and…

— Shaun Hick

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody…

— Ketzel Levine

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”

— Clare Ansberry

“It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.”

— Robin Hobb

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me,…

— Beverley Nichols

“Handwriting is the garden of the sciences.”

— Abu Dulaf

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other,…

— Haruki Murakami

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo