Able Quote by Susan Sontag

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months…

— Robin Sloan

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after…

— Edna Ferber

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television…

— Ed Brubaker

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

— Susan Wallace

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend…

— Jesmyn Ward

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

— James L. Brooks

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

— Paul Theroux

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others…

— Robert Hilburn