I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, have become citizens of Venice. I'm not sure whether it's just laziness, or fear of… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands Copy Share Image
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then,… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Laziness is the definition of being very active & doing nothing. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
