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Work Quotes by Martin Amis
- All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently…
- What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive…
- Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among…
- When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach