#waiting

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#buy #day #days #down #every

I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#chelsea #door #drive #famous #following

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#fix #get #give #give me #go

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable. ↗

— Parker Posey

#around #been #being #best #choices

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#centuries #die #god #healthier #help

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#a new day #always #been #behind #bit

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. ↗

— Emily Procter

#basis #beat #been #children #devastating

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven