Danish Pastry Quotes

#1. Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

Tana French

#2. Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

Martina Hingis

#3. Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Kate Atkinson

#4. People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

Jerry Seinfeld

#5. In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

Jefferson Smith

#6. I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

Alison Jackson

#7. There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

Niall Williams

#8. He was a portly man, aslop in coffee and gravid with Danish pastry.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.

Gillian Flynn