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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
Stop lusting after my brother, wife." Elliott said without looking up from where a laptop sat on a large desk. "Else I'll have to get the parrot out.
— Katie MacAlister
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
— Warren Buffett
Over my desk, I've got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I've tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work.
— Jennifer Niven
I sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!
— Caitlin Moran
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
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
— Michael Dirda
The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me.
— Azar Nafisi
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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.
— Graham Swift
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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 don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.
— Seth Klarman
Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.
— John Kennedy Toole
Okay, you got me. The screenwriter is a vampire. Now go to your own desk and call Mimi so she can call me and I can get my day started
— Tere Michaels
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
— Jamie Zawinski
No situation is beyond God's control. Over my wife's desk are these words: Fear not the future; God is already there.
— Billy Graham
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
— Fernando Pessoa
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
— Anton Corbijn
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
— Tess Gerritsen
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
— Siegfried Lenz
I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.
— Brian Andreas
Well, you know my type," Ty responded with a saccharine smile as he passed Zane's desk. "No self control and loads of mental issues.
— Abigail Roux
Some people say I am a terrible person. I'm not, I have the heart of a young boy ... in a jar, on my desk.
— Stephen King
My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.
— Wendy Mass
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station ... .
— William Faulkner
Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.
— Rebecca Makkai
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
— Stephen Greenblatt
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 didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.
— John Gilpin
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
— Aminatta Forna
I want to die at my desk.
— Jerry Della Femina
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
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
— James Lee Burke
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 place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
— Kelli Russell Agodon
I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan's picture on my desk. Let us be true to one another, dear.
— Robert B. Parker
I plan to die at my desk.
— Don Hewitt
I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key.
— John Green
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
— Janet Fitch
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
— Dani Shapiro
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
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
— Brandi L. Bates
Standing directly in front of my desk, he peers down at me as I slowly raise my head, meeting his focused eyes. Suddenly, I can't feel my lips
— Kelly Stevenson
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
— Hortense Calisher
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 vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it - orange-blossoms, in an English winter!
— Sarah Waters
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
— Erica Jong
When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of poop on our lawn out back.
— Haruki Murakami
It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
— Mallory Ortberg
He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.
— Tana French
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
The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side.
— Ruta Sepetys
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
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
— Geraldine Ferraro
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
— Etty Hillesum
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
I have this crazy collection of napkins and post-it notes I keep in a box under my desk, which I raid often and replenish constantly.
— Catherine Cruzan
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
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
— Tony Scott
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
It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?
— James Richardson
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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
Mr. Pettifor, I've brought you lunch, Sir." "Leave it on my desk," he grouses. "It's your favorite, Sir, a Reuben with au jus," I say softly.
— Ella Dominguez
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
— Christopher Smart
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
— Georges Simenon
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
— Dylan Lauren
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns ... the writers are back!
— Jon Stewart
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
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
