Leigh Bardugo

I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it means to be an author, where you sit in your garret or looking out at your view and you give everything to your art and you commit fully to it. But the reality is that most of us have bills to pay.

Israeli Author

Sarah Rees Brennan

Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

Irish Writer

Edith Wharton

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

American Author

Mary Kay Andrews

I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.

American Writer

Samuel Foote

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

English Dramatist

Garrets were traditionally associated with artists or writers as affordable housing in older cities.

Historical use

Garrets are basic, small, and sometimes poorly lit or ventilated, a step above uninhabitable.

Small and simple

The word can evoke romantic notions of struggling artists or students despite being a humble space.

Romanticized poverty

 art and skill that comes with tracking is exceptional and so it's all about that experience so if we were to just jump on the GPS and be able to go yeah cool that's very tiny year's get a little bit boring don't you think you literally just be driving to a garret and actually no it's not a guaranteed

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 And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. I was an obsessive compulsive student. In high school, a classmate once said that Brian Goldman would study for a blood test. And so I did. And I studied in my little garret