I Sit Quotes

452 I Sit quotes by 362 unique authors

To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye'… — John Keats
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him… — Oscar Wilde
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… — John Marsden
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do… — Anne Lamott
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right.… — Ridley Pearson
I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying… — Laurie Halse Anderson
some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.… — Jennifer Egan
Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police… — Melina Marchetta
I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that… — Charles Baudelaire
I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on… — Charles Bukowski
... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still… — Elwyn Brooks White
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till… — Haruki Murakami
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my… — Erich Maria Remarque
No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it… — Janice Galloway
I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me… — Erin Morgenstern
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize -… — Haruki Murakami
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write… — George Orwell
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. — Sylvia Plath
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both… — Anne Lamott
I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows… — Patrick Ness
I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond
You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind,… — Jean Sasson
I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For… — Suzanne Collins
You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you… — David Levithan

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