My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I…

Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction…

— Rachel Vincent

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

— Lord Chesterfield

Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test,…

— Kim Harrison

I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

— Travis Morrison

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send…

— Isaac Asimov

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something…

— Michelle Herman

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to…

— Steve Stockman

I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was…

— Kelley Armstrong

“The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you…

— Gustave Flaubert

I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was…

— Judy Blundell

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory…

— Haruki Murakami

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of…

— Fernando Pessoa

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers.

— Maria Franziska von Trapp

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

— Kristin Scott Thomas