I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a…

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.

— Tom Riley

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without…

— Jack Kerouac

I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a…

— Tony Robbins

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say,…

— Will Rogers

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world…

— Carol Bellamy

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

— Marcus Aurelius

You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.

— Gary Myers

“Jefferson wanders into the galley, whistling like a yellow warbler with a mouthful of spring. He pulls up a chair and sits beside me.…

— Rae Carson

“Have you ever been lying in bed in the morning and out of nowhere you’re reminded of all the mistakes you made yesterday and…

— Joel Osteen

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.

— Charles Gwathmey

“Oh, they’ll find him a job. Tattoo it on his paw every morning,” I say.”

— Suzanne Collins

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

— Veronica Roth