People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it!… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just… — Gerry Harvey Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk,… — Whitley Strieber 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
But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Susan Wojcicki at Google makes a point to leave the office at 6 P.M. After 9 P.M. she gets back online to… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose… — David Allen Copy Share Image
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it. — Chuck Pagano Copy Share Image
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
