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Desk Quotes - page 7

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day. (Ann Patchett)
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book. View quote
Markus Zusak
I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though. View quote
Melina Marchetta
During your typical working day how often do you stop and take a break, step away from your desk to recharge? Too few breaks can kill your productivity. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea. View quote
Rachel Hawkins
The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way - keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. View quote
Susan Hill
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. (Hilary Mantel)
I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen. View quote
Hilary Mantel
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you're not looking, it's there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it's the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it's not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don't get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice. View quote
Charles Yu
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked. View quote
Junot Diaz
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social. View quote
Becca Fitzpatrick
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. View quote
Brad Meltzer
I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football. View quote
Gareth Bale
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.' View quote
Graham Joyce
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk. View quote
Graham Swift
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m. (Jeannette Walls)
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. View quote
Janet Fitch
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M. View quote
James Herbert
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.' View quote
Jeff Kinney
She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was. View quote
Gena Showalter