“I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.” ShouldTwoDreamReadingFoundHoursSleepMorningNovelSittingSpendingRidiculousDesksEmail Author:Brit Marling
“I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.” ThinkingWayHas BeensMightNovelFiveSixShadowDiedDesksPublishersMight Have Been Author:Gail Godwin
“When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.” WritingNovelDown AndGreenWarmSurfaceContactGet UpTeaPotDesksWristsUp EarlyIrritationCuffsGreen Tea Author:Ruth Ozeki
“With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.” YearsNovelCrazyMonthsSixSittingZeroDesksSix MonthsFeedback Author:Duane Swierczynski
“I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.” RealReadingRoomsNovelFourProjectsHundredPaidLibraryFiftyDesksIntrusionSpecsFuture Work Author:William Monahan
“Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.” KnowsWritingCan DoNovelKnow HowActivityDamageDesksUnnatural Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing