“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.” ThinkingWritingWholeHappensActorsHouseLostSceneDeeperThings HappenUnconsciousEmail Author:David O. Russell
“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again” IfsWritingTodayHouseWhiteLike YouWhite HouseYou Again Author:Ron Suskind
“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.” WritingLittlesPlayKidsHouseHoursWifeSixSummerMy FamilyMy WifeMaine Author:Ben Marcus
“Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.” WritingFoundHouseAnswersOfficeMarriedPostsHelpfulDishesEmailBlogs Author:Randall Munroe
“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.” WritingLooksRealSeemsHouseRoomsViewsSubjectsSeriousSmall RoomsRoom With A ViewSerious Subjects Author:Peter York
“Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.” WritingFirstsHouseTalkingPressureOpeningYardsUpstairs Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.” WritingAgeAmericaHousePositionConstitutionArmyIndependenceCommandServingDiscoveringSpeakersSecretaryDeclarationClayDeclaration Of IndependenceTreasuryColumbusMadisonHamiltonContinentalFathering Author:John F. Kennedy
“Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.” WritingLiteratureHouseToiletsUsefulness Author:Theophile Gautier
“I have a very beautiful room in my house... 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'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsBeautifulThreeHouseSidesPerfectRoomsNiceOfficeGlassesExposedBedroomDistractedVery NiceVery BeautifulThree Sides Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.” KnowsGivingWritingFunnyHouseWhiteComedyJokesSarcasticWhite HouseBriefing Author:David Letterman
“As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.” WritingStillsWantedBeautifulNightHouseLostCompanyNovelWonderfulStorytellingCombinationEditorsPublishOne NightManuscriptsDebutBeautiful WritingCharlotteLifeboats Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.” PeopleKnowsWritingSongHouseStores Author:Jules Shear
“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.” WritingFirstsMadeBookHelpingHouseEffortColdConsciousRiversImpactCypresses Author:Michael Koryta
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.” WayWritingWholeStoriesHouseGrowsRoomsGrowing UpGenerationsReadyFatsDozenMailGetting OldRefrigeratorsCranky Author:Orson Scott Card
“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.” WritingChildrenStoriesHouseSawsPiecesDadEuropeMumSydney Author:Markus Zusak