Book Quote by Geoff Thompson Download Open image “I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.” — Geoff Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Factories Firsts Sweepers Toilets
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that.… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours. — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts. — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying. — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park. — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing,… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
