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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Belief Belt Desk Engine Gears Keep Keeps Spin Turns Work You Your

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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

Topics: Actually Before Book Desk Down Favourite Ideas Long Long Time Part Sit Start Thinking Time Up Writing

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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

Topics: Clear Courage Desk Film Had Many Never Off Ok Say Take Wanted Year Years

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I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.

~Audrey Meadows

Topics: Always America Because Behind Close Democrat Desk Dual Efficient Even Exactly Expect Leadership Much Republic Republican Voted You

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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

Topics: About Computer Desk Get Going Injustice Just Make March Me Might Out Sit Some Time Want Will You

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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Always Because Before Begins Desk Dumping File Full Get Head Just Morning Need Pouring Rises Sentences Start Sun Them Too Trying Up Wake Words

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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

Topics: Ask Begin Computer Desk Discipline Else Funny Funny Thing How Leaving Me Myself Off Often People Question Something Something Else Thing Turning Understand Write

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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

Topics: Background Better Desk Dinner Dinner Party Get Going Good Grasp Information Nbc Party Piles Than Washington World I Can

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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.

~Becca Fitzpatrick

Topics: Deadlines Desk Few Forget Friends Get Glue Just Make Means Month Myself Out Profession Social Solitary Sure Tempting Times Try Very Writing

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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Beginning Desk Down Draft Experience Fiction In The Beginning Month Novel Sitting Thinking

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