Beautiful Quote by Michael Dirda

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

— Dani Shapiro

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

— Dani Shapiro

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

— Clive Cussler

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

— Etty Hillesum

“Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on, and suddenly,…

— Barbara Brooke

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting…

— Richard Matheson

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

— Sharon Olds

“LEACH: You write by hand and, famously, do not own a computer. Is there some kind of physical pleasure to be taken in writing…

— Wendell Berry

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of…

— Adriana Trigiani