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Title: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: German Translator on August 05, 2020, 04:41:40 AM: https://writingcooperative.com/100-famous-authors-and-their-writing-spaces-8ee25c50c927 (https://writingcooperative.com/100-famous-authors-and-their-writing-spaces-8ee25c50c927)

100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces

... interesting photos, here is Arthur C. Clarke with a Kaypro II

(https://miro.medium.com/max/500/1*jnXxgbVj1sqyGBNu2DJd4g.jpeg)

... and nice quotes:
Philip Roth

Quote
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
:cool:
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: Maggie Ann on August 05, 2020, 10:07:17 AM: Dalton Trumbo's writing space is a lot like Waldo Lydecker's.

JD Salinger must be immune to mosquito bites.

And just a couple of the quotes that I liked

Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Somerset Maugham: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 11:23:09 AM: Sir Walter Scott:

(https://i.imgur.com/4Cmu6Db.jpg)
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 11:33:21 AM: The room where the characters of Robert E. Howard spilled forth onto the page with such furious vitality.

"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet."

(https://i.imgur.com/swuixzY.jpg)
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: Maggie Ann on August 05, 2020, 12:18:14 PM: Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 11:23:09 AM
Sir Walter Scott:

(https://i.imgur.com/4Cmu6Db.jpg)

Now that's a writing room. Although I notice most of them have a cramped little space just like I do.
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: LilyBLily on August 05, 2020, 01:58:04 PM: Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 11:23:09 AM
Sir Walter Scott:

(https://i.imgur.com/4Cmu6Db.jpg)

I adored this room when I toured his home in Scotland. The room is not large, but it's perfect for a book lover and writer. I of course would have some serious overhead lighting installed.
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 04:43:31 PM: Quote from: LilyBLily on August 05, 2020, 01:58:04 PM
...I toured his home in Scotland...

I'm quite envious. I'd love to see that place in person.
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: notthatamanda on August 05, 2020, 10:58:28 PM: I love, love, love a book catwalk.
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: LilyBLily on August 06, 2020, 12:16:07 AM: Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on August 05, 2020, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: LilyBLily on August 05, 2020, 01:58:04 PM
...I toured his home in Scotland...

I'm quite envious. I'd love to see that place in person.

The UK on a shoestring, many years ago, although that was a day tour that originated in Edinburgh, one of the few I forked over money for. Otherwise it was Britrailpass, tubes, buses, and shanks mare.
Title: Re: 100+ Famous Authors and Their Writing Spaces
Post by: notthatamanda on August 06, 2020, 12:43:18 AM: Waiting for my eggs to cook.

For Jeff: https://georgialibraries.org/gpls-names-10-most-beautiful-libraries-in-georgia/

For everyone: https://www.wheretraveler.com/play/12-most-beautiful-libraries-us#slide-13