Needs Quote by Jami Attenberg Download Open image “I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.” — Jami Attenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Needs Sitting Sitting still Stills Wish Writing
Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write. — Hozier Copy Share Image
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like 2am. I… — Thomston Copy Share Image
I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's plenty of times I sit down, I'm trying to write, and that feeling never comes, so I just don't do anything. — Alex G Copy Share Image
For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
You do have to kind of sit down and try to write, because it's not the easiest thing when you're off and on planes.… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image