“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.” WayYearsLongStoriesWantedMotherDesireBlackWhiteChangedPagesHundredDecidedEightScreensPoundsShort StoryBlack And WhiteNever ChangeGoatsParagraphLaptops Author:Tea Obreht
“You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.” KnowsLongDoneJobsTvsPagesShootingSchedules Author:Katey Sagal
“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLongStoriesRealizingWrittenPagesLong TimeThirdsFourthDepressingFifthFooled Author:David Sedaris
“One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.” PeopleGivingLongSometimesEasyPagesPressesI've LearnedButtonsThings I've Learned Author:Randall Munroe
“All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.” LongBookCharacterStoriesLastsPastVoiceScenePagesLists Author:Maureen Corrigan
“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.” IfsWritingTryingLongTwoWholeMovingGirlPagesNotesLikesGaugesMake A Move Author:Devon Werkheiser
“The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.” LongPoetryFeltPoetPagesCreatorProportionProseVersesStamps Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.” TryingLongHardPagesLong TimePoeticSatirical Author:Paul Beatty
“Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.” LongSoulStatesNightStarsSidesRaceBehindsGroupsMankindPagesBritishTyrannyConquerDestroyingRescueShatteredDutchBarbarismUnbrokenNorwegiansLong NightsBelgians Author:Winston Churchill
“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?” WritingLongShowsProblemPagesEmptyAwfulShellsCompositionFind MeHere And NowLonesomeEmpty Shell Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929 Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.” LongDreamGirlClassBoysTeacherBabyBedPagesEarsLaysGradesCountingBoy And GirlEighth Grade Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.” PeopleShouldWritingLongBookEnoughSeemsHalfNovelPagesImpressionGood EnoughEditingNot Good Enough Author:Fran Lebowitz
“History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.” YearsLongTodaySkyWasteAchievementPagesGunAngelTongueSavedExilePrintedBruised Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender