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"I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways." »Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" »Laurence J. Peter
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk" »Laurence J. Peter
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"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign" »Albert Einstein
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"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" »Albert Einstein.
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"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?" »Author Unknown
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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien
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"writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." »John le Carre
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"writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." »Fred Allen
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"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route." »Malcolm Forbes
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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton
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"Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." »Ivana Trump
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"Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly
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"Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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