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“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
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“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
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“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”
Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”
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“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”
Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
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“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”
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“Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”
