Writing Desk Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
• When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong
• Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's… — Ed McBain
• For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
• I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the… — Erica Jong
• Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place. — Karen Russell
• Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give… — Lewis Carroll
• A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.… — Stephen King
• Why is a raven like a writing desk? — Lewis Carroll
• Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll
• Why is a raven like a writing desk? -The Hatter — Alice In Wonderland

Who Wrote These Writing Desk Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Writing Desk Quotes as follows:

• 3 Writing Desk Quotes by Lewis Carroll
• 2 Writing Desk Quotes by Erica Jong
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by George Washington Carver
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Ed McBain
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Julia Alvarez
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Karen Russell
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Stephen King
• 1 Writing Desk Quote by Alice In Wonderland