My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.
Neal Asher
Related My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfec... MATTHEW MORRISON Something that is yours forever is never precious CHAIM POTOK My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa... ISABEL ALLENDE My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still... WITHERED HAND Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is m... PAUL THEROUX My mind is killing me” — The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. ERIN HEATHERTON One of my favourite places is Hampstead Heath. When I first moved to London, I lived in Highgate, an... GUGU MBATHA-RAW I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a ve... AUDREY HEPBURN I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi... KAMAND KOJOURI All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good ... STEVIE NICKS Music is my life. ROBERT ILER teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... CECIL DAY-LEWIS That was big because I let my team down (in the last game). I just had to come on -- be more aggress... AL HARRINGTON First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... C. DAY LEWIS The statue is permanently out of place in my house, STEVEN WRIGHT Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree ab... CAMERON CROWE There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I hav... VINCE LOMBARDI I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually d... EVE BUNTING Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and ... KARIN SLAUGHTER You don't know that and I don't know that! MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t... PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec... VICKIE MCKEEHAN I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the wo... MARIA SHARAPOVA My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry. KATE REARDON Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. JANET STREET-PORTER I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my u... ROBERT BOSWELL Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. CHAIM POTOK Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr... JENEANE SESSUM Music is my life. It is sacred. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN Change is one of my favourite words. CAROL VORDERMAN Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful. JUSTINE LARBALESTIER Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. GUNTHER SCHULLER Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world. MARTIN FREEMAN I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favour... DOMINIC MONAGHAN I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing... LINUS TORVALDS I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long noteboo... COLM TOIBIN I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. KARLIE KLOSS Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop... SOLANGE KNOWLES I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Wher... ANTHONY LAPAGLIA I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house. KID ROCK Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like... DAN SAVAGE Being in love is the best thing in my life. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN There is a strange breeze that flows from the mountains. The breeze is tender yet harsh, sublime yet... AVIJEET DAS It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. CHAIM POTOK I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distr... PAUL THEROUX London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas. PHIFE DAWG I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye... SAM HEUGHAN I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that sat... CARICE VAN HOUTEN My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ANAIS NIN I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actu... ROSEMARY MAHONEY There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm ... PETER HELLER I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young ... CONDOLEEZZA RICE I like bets... my favourite ones are those in which food plays big role. DEYTH BANGER It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk... MALLORY ORTBERG The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the ai... RAY BRADBURY My only window into the Internet is Twitter because I am afraid of the Internet. I need my mom to ho... AJ LEE I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am... JENJI KOHAN I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several mor... HARUKI MURAKAMI Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessl... LEIGH LEZARK My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return... J. C. WATTS When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite c... LINWOOD BARCLAY I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because... HEIDI JULAVITS In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the n... PEARL S. BUCK My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you ... GROUCHO MARX There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE It's devastating. I mean, my brother died in this house at 29. My grandfather died in this house, an... BRENDA HILDRETH That's because it's sitting in my desk drawer. STEVE GLENN My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart ... STEVE MARABOLI There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill... SAUL DAVID At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place ANDREW BODDIE One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the b... MIKE BIRBIGLIA People trust the fact that if I'm not at my desk, there's a good reason I'm not at my desk. I don't ... BRIAN LUCAS I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there wi... LUIS FONSI One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will n... NANA MOUSKOURI I never, ever, ever write with a red pen -- red signifies losses, ... I also keep my desk completely... JAMES PARK In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of ... ANGIE KARAN My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little ... DAVID WALLIAMS My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Ou... GERARD WAY My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect. UWE BOLL My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses. EDIE CAMPBELL My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20... CODY LINLEY The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home. BEN OAK There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and... ROBERT H. SCHULLER I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill. MUHAMMAD ALI Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. LENNY KRAVITZ Kinko's is my favourite copy place cause it's open 24 hours, like if it's three in the morning, and ... MITCH HEDBERG So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It'... DEYTH BANGER The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ... CYRILLE AIMEE My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just wei... JUSTINE LARBALESTIER What a dog I got. His favourite bone is in my arm! UNKNOWN I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite... ARTHUR DARVILL I plan to die at my desk. DON HEWITT
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