Bed Quote by Susan Orlean

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

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

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

— Samuel Johnson

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

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the…

— Nan Fairbrother

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”

— Charles Dowding

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because…

— Cynthia Kadohata

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

“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.”

— Ron Brackin

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be…

— Irving Stone

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just…

— George R. R. Martin

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