Writers' Rooms

George Bernard Shaw (Read about his room here.)

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

(Above: George Bernard Shaw at work in his summerhouse on his 90th birthday in 1946.)

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Virginia Woolf (Read about her room here.)

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

(Above: Virginia Woolf’s writing table at Monk’s House, Sussex, England, 1967.)

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Rudyard Kipling (Read about his room here.)

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

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Dylan Thomas (Read about his room here.)

“Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”

-N.