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I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.
Mary Gaitskill
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.


Flannery O'Connor
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Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.
John Cena
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.


Richard Whately
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I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.


Missy Elliott
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My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
Anthony Horowitz
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There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Glen Hansard
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I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.
Alex Turner
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
Carl Yastrzemski
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I could never sit down and write jokes.


Louis C. K.
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
Trent Reznor
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On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
Jeff Kinney
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!


Nafisa Joseph
I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.
Brantley Gilbert
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.


Wole Soyinka
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I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.


Ruth Rendell
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My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
Cynthia Voigt
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All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.
Robert Pinsky
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I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.


Tracy Chapman
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
Mary Oliver
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