Drawers Quotes - Page 6

• As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Firsts, Structure

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Congratulations, Taken, Ink And Paper

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• I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

  Travis Morrison

  Writing, Blow, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When things aren't going well, I complain a lot and get depressed. I whine and I eat and I go to sleep. I do all kinds of things. And if I'm smart, I'll go and clean out a drawer or a closet or go and pay my bills. I do get myself into situations where I'm not happy with what's going on. But you just have to wait it out and have faith that that dry well will fill up again.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Smart, Sleep, Waiting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

  Aaron Brookner

  Notebook, Writing, Grandmother

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Dust

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• Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Sometimes, Knows

  "Look back in anger" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2007.

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• I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

  Katharine McPhee

  Hands, Artistic Ability, Horrible

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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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• Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

  Jandy Nelson

  Love, Wall, Book

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• My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

  Carrie Fisher

  Life Is Like, Lasts, Forgotten

  Carrie Fisher (2008). “Postcards from the Edge”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

  Amy Poehler

  Brain, Tantrums, May

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And he goes, ‘Sure, take it.’ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, ’ What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ Never….. I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system. So, if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time.

  Michael Giacchino

  Dad, Kids, Support Systems

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• All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

  Philip Larkin

  Knives, Mind, Lays

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

  Martha Grimes

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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• Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
  vacation with pay. Want more
  of everything ready-made. Be afraid
  to know your neighbors and to die.
  And you will have a window in your head.
  Not even your future will be a mystery
  any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
  and shut away in a little drawer.
  When they want you to buy something
  they will call you. When they want you
  to die for profit they will let you know.

  Wendell Berry

  Vacation, Mind, Cards

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Book, Becoming, Comic

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

  Shaggy

  Believe, Dropping, Concerts

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• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

  Mark Twain

  Clean Desk, Funny Business, Office Desk

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• The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

  Frank Hadden

  Reality, Guy, Balance

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• Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in the bill drawer, now on the desk. Services Rendered. "My life is dependent on services rendered."

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Littles, Bills, Mail

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• The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

  Gwen Stefani

  Digging, Want, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

  Rick Bragg

  Book, Pages, Kind

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.292, Vintage

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