Writing Location Quotes

I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.

The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.

I've tried everywhere, but my garden shed is the most effective place to write.

The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

I write in a small office at home.