Distraction Quote by Merlin Mann

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

— Muhammad al-Bukhari

One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see more clearly’…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is…

— Terry Eagleton

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]”

— Franz Kafka

“In addition, discussing these things and making decisions at the outset of the collaboration can help to define non-writing roles. For example, who will…

— J. Thorn

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

— Franz Kafka

Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when…

— Franz Kafka

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the…

— Tenzin Palmo

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link