Baking Quote by Martine Bailey

“But there’s something about sitting at someone else’s desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.”

— Kim Wright

“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.”

— Sydney Smith

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds…

— Mary Stewart

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I…

— Sebastian Barry

“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

“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of self-doubt, and…

— Daphne Kapsali

“I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid