Book Quote by Gertrude Stein

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

— Robert Baden-Powell

“What lofty subject are you addressing in Tuesday’s column?” she asked. “Pencils! I’ve just discovered a source for the fat yellow pencils with thick…

— Lilian Jackson Braun

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

— E. W. Howe

I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture…

— Tom Hodgkinson

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking…

— E.F. Benson

I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the…

— Jim Henson

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

— Peter Drucker

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

— John Walter Bratton

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

— John Hay

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother…

— Jacques Barzun