Stood Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same…

— Henry David Thoreau

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something…

— John Zorn

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must…

— Henry David Thoreau

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks