Astronomy Quote by Martie Maguire

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort…

— Eavan Boland

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else…

— Stephen King

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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 are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

— Michael Ondaatje

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

— Howie Mandel

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's…

— Wole Soyinka

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

— Jillian Medoff

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes