Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. — Vijay Mallya Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The moment the door opened, Jace seized up a yellow pencil lying on the desk and threw it. It sailed through the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
