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
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe… — Alan AtKisson 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
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from… — Franz Kafka 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
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering… — Heinrich Neuhaus 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
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
