Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles. – Harry Morgan
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the habit of assembling. – Henry Mayhew
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. – G. Stanley Hall
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. – Henry Williamson
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. – Jawaharlal Nehru
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. – John Updike
If I don’t work very often, it’s because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full. – Isabelle Adjani
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent. – Ariel Gore
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter. – Barbara Mertz
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, ‘I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.’ – John Green
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. – Barbara Tuchman
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. – Anthony Trollope
I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I’ve ever visited into the historical person I’d have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
