Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to…

— Jacques Audiard

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with…

— Washington Irving

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes…

— Fannie Flagg

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step…

— David Wong

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

— Rand Paul

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…

— Steven Millhauser

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

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

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote…

— Kate DiCamillo

“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

Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you…

— Rainbow Rowell

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands…

— Joseph Prince

“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.…

— Marissa Meyer