Quiet Work Quotes

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.

I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.

People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about 'loud' music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

To go fast, row slowly.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

One has to work quietly with lot of commitment.

I would love to just have the work do the talking. We're in positions where people ask us questions; they want to know about more than just the work. And it can go into areas where I've completely shot my mouth off, whether it's too much about my private life or being too opinionated about things in the world. I think the better thing to do - I've learned this from people far wiser than me - is to do very good, quiet work behind closed doors.