The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés writer author study shelves desk

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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

John le Carré

Mots clés desk viewpoint

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But there’s something about sitting at someone else’s desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn’t belong came with the territory.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Mots clés desk pi the-man-who

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