If your name was homework, I would be doing you on my desk…

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have…

— Betty Smith

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly…

— Eve Bunting

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they…

— Bobby Bonilla

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

— Bill Goldberg

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

— John Gilpin

I've always had a picture of the White House and it would always sit right in front of my desk. Whenever I was having…

— Stephanie Grisham

A handwritten Declaration of Independence was on my bedroom wall and the Founding Fathers were above my desk in college.

— Jake Auchincloss

“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”

— John McPhee

“At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place”

— Andrew Boddie

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

— Tammy Duckworth

We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that…

— Lisa Gansky

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I…

— Steve Berry

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So…

— Haruki Murakami

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

— Lars Rasmussen