#writing

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'. ↗

— Ben Folds

#good #hits #i #really #writing

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself. ↗

— Travis Tritt

#crawl #dog #every #having #house

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#easily #way #well #writing

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#colour #writing #beauty

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#comfortable #i #just #much #myself

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. ↗

— David Walliams

#afternoon #book #children #could #hard

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#robbed #writing #you #your

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗