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I plan to die at my desk. -- Don Hewitt
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. -- Jamie Zawinski
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. -- Vijay Mallya
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. -- Roddy Doyle
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M. -- James Herbert
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. -- Anais Nin
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. -- Hart Crane
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. -- Ray Bradbury
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. -- John Grisham
My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. -- Reem Acra
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk. -- Steve Berry
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.' -- Laz Alonso
I sit at my desk -- Anne Sexton
I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care. -- Seth Klarman
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard. -- Warren Buffett
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. -- Fernando Pessoa
My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk. -- Rolonda Watts
I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love. -- Kelli Russell Agodon
I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. -- Gary Panter
I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet! -- Karen Walker
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. -- Simon Beaufoy
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. -- Hilary Mantel
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk. -- Hortense Calisher
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things. -- Steven Hall
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it. -- Chuck Pagano
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. -- Robin Williams
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. -- Tony Scott
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. -- Tess Gerritsen
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m. -- Jeannette Walls
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. -- Etty Hillesum
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? -- Jonathan Tropper
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back! -- Jon Stewart
Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited. -- Rebecca Makkai
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Robert Bloch
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. -- Brad Meltzer
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
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that. -- Wendy Davis
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. -- Helen Hunt
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous. -- Claire Coffee
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. -- Chelsea Cain
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. -- Jenny Offill
I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside. -- Barbara Corcoran
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. -- John McCain
I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before. -- Daniel Woodrell
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Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars! -- Stephen King
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours. -- Gail Tsukiyama
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! -- Ronald Reagan
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made. -- Harry S. Truman
I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. -- Chelsea Cain
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night. -- Franz Kafka
I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see. -- Danny McBride
My favorite 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. -- Anthony Horowitz
When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path. -- Paula Fox
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. -- Anthony Horowitz
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk. -- Salman Rushdie
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is. -- Ted Bell
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. -- Norman MacCaig
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. -- Walt Disney
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying? -- Bill Keller
Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life. -- Mitt Romney
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. -- Peter Straub
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again. -- Philip Pullman
My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet. -- Neal Asher
There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve. -- Barack Obama
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. -- Joanna Lumley
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener. -- Maira Kalman
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. -- Susan Hill
In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. -- Aysha Taryam
I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise. -- Jennifer Gilmore
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit." -- Peter Straub
With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully. -- John Burnside
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. -- Markus Zusak
I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more. -- Larry David
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. -- Barbara Walters
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. -- Stephen King
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. -- Shane McCrae
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. -- Dinah Sheridan
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible. -- Alice Hoffman
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. -- Haruki Murakami
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat. -- Alexandra Stoddard
I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed. -- Blake Bailey
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere. -- Haruki Murakami
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos. -- Joy Behar
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. -- Hilary Mantel
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore." -- J. R. Moehringer
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else. -- Haruki Murakami
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. -- J. R. Moehringer
I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. -- Chris Christie
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. -- Etty Hillesum
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living. -- Mike Birbiglia
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV. -- Fran Lebowitz
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself. -- Jan Brett
Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President -- Edward Snowden
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
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day. -- Rick Riordan
I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines. -- Phil Klay
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk. -- Sebastian Coe
When did you first fall in love?""I think, I first fell in lovewhen I was in fifth gradewith this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it. -- Saiber
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. -- Pearl S. Buck
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Stephen King
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Robert Bloch
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth. -- Kurt Vonnegut
After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it. -- David M. Evans
I got you a present.""Did you?""It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work -- J.D. Robb
I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
I got you a present.""Did you?""It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work -- J.D. Robb
Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants. -- Gary D. Schmidt
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
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life. -- Laz Alonso
Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist. -- Richard Florida
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. -- C. Day Lewis
I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. -- Brit Marling
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust. -- Henry David Thoreau

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