Lap Desk

Famous quotes containing the words lap and/or desk:

“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)