As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning...
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Paul Rudnick
My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.
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Nanette Mathews
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
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Thomas A. Edison
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Benjamin Franklin
In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris
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George F. Will
More Quotes By William Hazlitt
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with...
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
The old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life-- Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
The path of genius is free, and its own
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our
