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“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.”

Giving Should Results Attention Equal Pages Models Mere Curiosity Intense

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.”

People Ifs Attention Consciousness Practice Fronts Pages Bases Crisis Climate Environmental Fishes

Author:Daniel Pauly

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.”

Made Book Character Reading Found Lines Interesting Attention Pages Track Fats Interesting Characters Snail

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”

Ifs Writing Looks Today Attention Half Advice Pages Following Holiday Notebook Gogol

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.”

People Giving Hours Pay Attention Opinion Watches Tvs Pages Endless Pay Attention Frustrating Editorials Columnists

Author:George W. Bush

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.”

People Way Mind Two Simple Attention Audience Minutes Pages Prepared Impression Pay Attention Frame Of Mind Gags

Author:Frank Caliendo

“Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like bullshit, but most of the stories that we've run had that effect on me. We get thousands and thousands of submissions and I don't think we've published a story yet - very few, anyway - where there wasn't something like what Mona Simpson described, where a first sentence or a first page didn't just really command attention.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Two Stories Running Sound Attention Issues Effects Pages Sentences Command Two Things Bullshit Submission

Author:Lorin Stein

“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.”

Has Beens Artist Courses Can Do Attention Millions Records Worst Media Fronts Crime Position Pages Gains Sells Marketing Campaigns Sidewalk Marketing Campaigns

Author:Chuck D

“The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.”

Thinking Knows Kind Stories Attention Brain Type Pages Argument Tools Sentences Pay Attention Progression

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.”

People Thinking Kind Courses Attention Pages Newspapers Ironic Cartoon Editorials

Author:Terry Mosher

“I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.”

Writing Trying Reading Attention Novel Right Now Pages Hundred Awful Admission

Author:Matthew Healy

“The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.”

Way Firsts Real Effort Attention Pages Dialogue Plot Adore Rubbish Ivy Clumsy Compton

Author:Hilary Mantel

“When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.”

Humans Important Attention Pages Evidence Climate Climate Change Theology Despite Global Warming Documents Ecology Stewardship

Author:George Weigel

“To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.”

Attention Millions Worry Clear Internet Cost Pages Impact Instinct Discourse Surfing Attention Span Sedentary Web Page

Author:Andrew Weil

“If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.”

Ifs Mean Eye Turns White Attention Cutting Written Air Protect Paper Pages Bird Pay Attention Protect You Paper Cuts

Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

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