Writer Or Waiter Quotes & Sayings

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.' — Helen Fielding

People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom. — Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it. — Gillian Alexy

But what Freud showed us ... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia. — Jacques Lacan

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter

There was nowhere in the world, Baru thought, no collection of lords or lovers, that did not have its own politics. — Seth Dickinson

Let me get this straight," I said, having swallowed. "You are sending me out in a minivan whose date of manufacture predates the year of my birth, so that I can watch two dragon slayers track down enormous fire-breathing animals, in an effort to prevent me from spending time in the library?" "There's no supervision in the library," Dad said. — E.K. Johnston

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner

Why did tears make people treat you like a five-year-old when usually they meant something grown-up was going on inside? — Melissa Nathan

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose. — Brandon Marshall

In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer. — Debra Ginsberg