“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.” IfsWritingLongBookSometimesMomentsProblemMotherProcessPrinciplesOne ThingLonelinessMonthsReaderOne DayBoundsInvisibleWhat IfDislikeWriting ProcessGlamourRewritingAgonizing Author:Mary Rodgers
“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.” KnowsWayMindMayPastGonePlayerHappenedOne ThingTeamFootballMonthsTablesBottomSoccerAnalysisLeaguePrizeMeaninglessAnother WayInadequateAugustFractionsPremier LeagueDerbyPrize Money Author:Pete Gill
“In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.” IfsMenPastOne ThingMonthsPaidConvinced Author:Judy Greer
“One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.” WorldWarEffortBoysOne ThingMonthsSixMissionsWar Of The WorldsPlusCombatWorld War IiSix MonthsDurationGreat Effort Author:Tom Hanks
“The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.” PeopleIfsLooksBitsWhitePiecesOne ThingPaintingMonthsRoundsPreservesRelyRemoveHalfwayDisturbedGlovesWearing White Author:Banksy
“The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.” ThinkingWritingYearsBookDifferentPlayStoriesProcessRolesNovelOne ThingMonthsTake MeChaptersRhymeAlways ThinkingPicture Books Author:Sarah Weeks
“I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.” IfsWholeHouseOne ThingMonthsDrinkVery GoodCome UpEveningEntertainingRecipes Author:Amy Sedaris
“We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.” YearsHardChristianLastsUsedLeadershipChurchOne ThingMonthsCoupleProductiveOne Thing At A TimeAlone With GodMulti Tasking Author:Francis Chan
“There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.” LongImportantActorsBitsHalfFiveOne ThingMonthsReaderStartingVery GoodPreparationUselessRevolutionaryWrapping Author:Kate Winslet
“The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.” ThinkingWritingYearsDoeBookHappensOne ThingMonthsPeriods Author:Charles Stross
“Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.” WritingLongDoneSongThreeOne ThingMinutesMonthsTwentiesSongwritingThree Months Author:Greg Lake
“I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing...I could talk.” ShouldNextOne ThingMonths Author:Maria Sharapova
“There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.” IfsKnowsWantDifferentPlayNextStrongDifferencesWhiteHalfOne ThingHeardEconomicHavensMonthsDemocraticBarackAfrican AmericanPresidentialCandidatesExploitationLoanGhettoLendingPresidential CandidatePredatoryPaydayAsbestos Author:Ralph Nader
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.” PeopleBelieveMeanLittlesCountryMatterShowsCareTurnsWaitingInterestPracticeOne ThingWeekMonthsFindingsUniversalHealth CarePhrasesBritainCanadaSurgerySwedenUniversal Health Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.” YearsMadeTwoSchoolMistakeOne ThingStudentsMonthsMovedEightBrokeAsiaTwo Months Author:Maggie Q
“As we move forward to debate our economic and fiscal challenges in the weeks and months ahead, one thing is clear: Our economic agenda, choices and decisions, will be viewed through the perspective and the eyes of our nation's women and their needs and those of their families.” NeedsEyeMovingChoicesNationsChallengesDecisionClearOne ThingWeekEconomicPerspectiveMonthsDebateMoving ForwardAgendasChoices And Decisions Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid