Briefcases Quote by Alan Kay

I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to…

— Stephen Malkmus

People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey.…

— Clive Cussler

Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head…

— Neal Stephenson

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground,…

— Ryan Sheckler

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the…

— Lisa Lutz

You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it…

— Audrey Niffenegger

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and…

— Florence Welch

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something…

— Michelle Herman

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our…

— Ransom Riggs

After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that,…

— Don Hertzfeldt

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

— Rita Dove