“My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.”

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing…”

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

“I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brains send me a product… I am my brain's publisher.”

“While the whole world is attracted and distracted by unnecessary criticism, music writes history.”

“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”

“I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.”

“How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?”

“everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”