Desks Quote by Nadeem Aslam Download Open image “As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.” — Nadeem Aslam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desks Homeland Inspirational Love Patriotism Writing
I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission. — Passenger Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in the middle… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I work in my office, just reading material, meeting writers, working on scripts. Other times, I'm on location. There's a lot of variety. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were ten years old…… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Sunday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower… — Betty Smith Copy Share
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose… — David Wong Copy Share
