Currey And Co Quotes & Sayings

When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I can't afford it. I brood, thinking of ideas, in the automobile when I'm driving to work or in the subway or when I'm mowing the lawn. By the time I get to the paper something's there - I can produce. — Mason Currey

The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored in long file boxes. Since Nabokov claimed, he pictured an entire novel in complete form before he began writing it, this method allowed him to compose passages out of sequence, in whatever order he pleased... — Mason Currey

Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon. — Mason Currey

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. — Pat Robertson

Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell — Mason Currey

Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work, — Mason Currey

It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic. — Mason Currey

Heller wrote Catch-22 in the evenings after work, sitting at the kitchen table in his Manhattan apartment. — Mason Currey

(John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?) — Mason Currey

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. — Mark Hyman

The sun sifted through the trees around the platform, and Blake stood proudly in its curtain of light. It would be retreating from him this time. He walked over to his old spot in the shade with victory in his step. He'd been trapped there for so long. He shook his head and returned to the sun's rays, amazed at how powerful that simple act made him feel. — Debra Anastasia

A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods. — Mason Currey

I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus. — Allan McNish

to sustain these true moments of insight one has to be highly disciplined, lead a disciplined life, — Mason Currey

Coal mining is hard work. This is a nightmare....There's a tremendous uncertainty that's built into the profession, a sustained level of doubt that supports you in some way. A good doctor isn't in a battle with his work; a good writer is locked in a battle with his work. In most professions there's a beginning, middle, and an end. With writing, it's always beginning again. Temperamentally, we need that newness. There is a lot of repetition in the work. In fact, one skill that every writer needs is the ability to sit still in this deeply uneventful business. - Philip Roth — Mason Currey

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! — Ogden Nash

My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993. — Mason Currey

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth. — Meredith Brooks

Auden believed that a life of such military precision was essential to his creativity, a way of taming the muse to his own schedule. "A modern stoic," he observed, "knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble. — Mason Currey

Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James — Mason Currey

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation. — Joe Paterno

Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work. — Mason Currey

Knulp was right in doing what his nature demanded and what few others could do, in speaking to strangers like a child and winning their hearts, in saying pleasant things to ladies of all ages, and making Sundays out of weekdays. — Hermann Hesse

I shall always be depressed," Beckett concluded, "but what comforts me is the realization that I can now accept this dark side as the commanding side of my personality. In accepting it, I will make it work for me. — Mason Currey

A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. — Mason Currey

Even without a bite to mark her perfect, creamy skin, they'd know to whom she belonged. — Lia Davis

After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life! — Mason Currey

It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth — Mason Currey

Steffi wasn't tired anymore. In fact, she felt invigorated. She was going to make it. She needed more of those kisses. — Kim Baldwin

I know a person who will poke the fire, set chairs straight, pick dust specks from the floor, arrange his table, snatch up a newspaper, take down any book which catches his eye, trim his nails, waste the morning anyhow, in short, and all without premeditation - simply because the only thing he ought to attend to is the preparation of a noonday lesson in formal logic which he detests. - William James — Mason Currey

Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings? — Jonathan Haidt

eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then — Mason Currey

I simply get up in the morning and go to work, and I read at night. Like Abe Lincoln. - Saul Bellow — Mason Currey

Franklin thought that if he could maintain his devotion to one virtue for an entire week, it would become a habit; then he could move on to the next virtue, successively making fewer and fewer offenses (indicated on the calendar by a black mark) until he had completely reformed himself and would thereafter need only occasional bouts of moral maintenance. The — Mason Currey

Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training. — Mason Currey

We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing. - Friedrich Schiller — Mason Currey

when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder, — Mason Currey

My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits," Adams said — Mason Currey

One can be very fertile without having to work too much. Three hours in the morning. Three hours in the evening. This is my only rule. - Jean-Paul Sartre — Mason Currey

It's dangerous to need someone that much. You're trying to save him and he's hoping you can. You two are a disaster." I smiled at the ceiling. "It doesn't matter what or why it is. When it's good, Kara ... it's beautiful. — Jamie McGuire

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now. — Christina Ricci