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Waiting Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof…
- I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
- Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a…
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
- His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again,…
More Waiting Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone… — Christian Bale
- My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. — Tyra Banks
- So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry