Behinds Quote by Amanda Palmer

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

— Aparna Sen

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

— Lamman Rucker

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily…

— Peter Dinklage

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step…

— David Wong

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

— Rand Paul

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…

— Steven Millhauser

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have…

— Betty Smith