{"id":357,"date":"2007-10-04T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/writers-rooms\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T22:35:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T06:35:41","slug":"writers-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/writing\/writers-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/byatt.jpg\" title=\"as byatt's writing room\" alt=\"as byatt's writing room\" height=\"388\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has an ongoing feature displaying writers&#8217; workrooms. The common features tend to be clutter, piles of books, and undistinguished furniture. Shown is the room of AS Byatt, who says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The objects in the room are in a way a metaphor of my mind. They are brightly coloured, or transparent, and are about intricate patterns and structures. I collect glass paperweights. There are also stones. A piece of the chalk cliff at Flamborough Head in Yorkshire, a bit of pumice from an Icelandic lava field. Rose quartz from Norway and rose quartz given to me by a Korean friend. My favourite is fantomqvartz (the Norwegian spelling) one crystal growing inside another. On the wall there is a Matisse poster of Leda and the Swan and three watercolours by John Houston &#8211; watercolour is bright and transparent too. There is a case of South American insects I found in a Conran shop, and a glass dish of snail shells. There is also a reproduction mediaeval print of Babel Tower. Snails, towers, DNA. I like spirals. It looks like clutter but it&#8217;s a kind of order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/namastenancy.livejournal.com\/371185.html\" title=\"namastenancy on writer's rooms\" target=\"_blank\">NamasteNancy<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/32423\/s?kw=Byatt+A.S.\" title=\"A.S. Byatt at Powell's\" target=\"_blank\">A.S. Byatt books at Powell&#8217;s Bookstore\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has an ongoing feature displaying writers&#8217; workrooms. The common features tend to be clutter, piles of books, and undistinguished furniture. Shown is the room of AS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}