“Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.” IfsWritingBookReasonSeemsDoorsInterviewsRequestWriting A Book Author:James Rollins
“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.” WritingHelpingNightSilenceMorningDoorsLateSticksPhonesDawnAwakeLunchVacation Author:Mona Simpson
“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.” WritingProcessLosesPracticeCreativeDoorsKeysHabitStructureInsightInstanceConsistentWriting ProcessInvitationsDaily Habits Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.” WritingRoomsDoorsToughTough Things Author:Randy Wayne White
“Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWritingLittlesSelfProcessNiceDoorsComfortableConsciousInstrumentsOpeningPianoSolitarySelf ConsciousReally NiceYour Favorite Author:Marketa Irglova
“I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.” IfsWorldWritingSleepDoorsSkyInsulation Book:Portrait of Myself Source: Portrait of Myself
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.” PeopleIfsWritingGrowsAudienceDoors Author:Yukimi Nagano
“I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.” IfsWritingDoors Author:Yukimi Nagano
“I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.” WritingDoorsTownsNosesPublishingSplinters Author:Rita Mae Brown
“Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.” FeelsWritingNovelDoorsPleaseDesperateKnocking Author:Samantha Shannon