Attention Quote by Nadia Boulanger

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they…

— Anne McCaffrey

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

— Burton Rascoe

If one's mind is so full of clutter, so is one's life.

— JOHNREYES

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

— Pat Schneider

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people…

— Kathleen Winsor

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

— Charlaine Harris

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…

— Betsy Lerner