Desks Quotes

• I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather them and put them under one roof, under one cover, so I could document my life in a series of snapshots.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Disappear

• 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • Shows
  • Halls

• As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Work
  • Homeland
  • Desks

• I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • Feels
  • Lucky
  • Doom

• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Space
  • Environment
  • Coffee

• Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Please
  • Beard
  • Rosie

• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Minutes

• If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Desks

• There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Romance
  • Scripts
  • Desks

• If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Beats
  • Desks
  • Angela

• The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

  

  David Burnett
  • World
  • Home
  • Cameras

• My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Language
  • Cities

• I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Needs

• Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • Humans
  • Letters

• 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 of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Attention
  • Moments
  • Fighting

• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Respect
  • Sometimes
  • Paper

• I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Book
  • Night
  • Paper

• This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Able
  • Lasts

• I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Decision

• When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Girl
  • Air
  • Facts

• The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Long
  • Challenges
  • Jobs

• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Looks
  • Library

• I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Cat
  • Favorite
  • Desks

• Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Moving
  • Insight
  • Notebook