I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration. — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to… — Hiro Fujiwara Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?" "I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere." "Ha! No, you've been tricked,… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows,… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind… — Joe Thompson Copy Share Image
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture.… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
“They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
