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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is… — Barbara Kingsolver
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel
Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking… — Shigeru Miyamoto
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the… — Haruki Murakami
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or… — Haruki Murakami
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin
I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had… — Condoleezza Rice
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to… — Salman Rushdie
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… — Paul Theroux
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want… — Wendy Wasserstein
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. — William Faulkner
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. — Robert Bloch
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear… — C.S. Lewis
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call… — Orson Scott Card
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through… — Melina Marchetta
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into… — Ilona Andrews
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I… — Douglas Coupland
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different. — Nalini Singh
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at… — Janet Evanovich

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