The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour…

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality,…

— Lydia Davis

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing…

— Agnes de Mille

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers…

— Susanna Clarke

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for…

— Ken Robinson

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was…

— Nick Hornby

I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my…

— Frederick Exley

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and…

— N.D. Wilson

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in…

— Carson McCullers

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

— Tommy Chong

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in…

— Peter Lynch

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured…

— Don Rickles

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You…

— Wilhelm Reich

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities…

— Jeanette Winterson

You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are…

— D. A. Carson