“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.” WayNeedsLooksMatterPastHouseLeftHoursRoomsHalfDrinkPagesTablesSentencesCoffeeMy WayShopsRoutineDistractionPhasesEmailLoathingDiningHalf HoursCoffee ShopHeadphonesDining Rooms Author:Kelly Link
“Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script and realizing to my horror that I'm only about a quarter of the way through the story I wanted to tell, and the next thing you know, I'm making fresh coffee and tearing up the floorboards to rewrite.” KnowsWayBelieveStillsTwoBookStoriesWantedNextRealizingSpaceWrittenHorrorPagesTwentiesScriptsCoffeeNineComicQuartersBelieve In MeComic BookTwenty Two Author:Mark Waid
“I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.” WritingSometimesHappensBrainPagesCoffeeSurrenderShopsMidnightCoffee ShopSyntax Author:Marvin Bell
“There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.” UsedReadingHouseSportsEnjoyPagesTablesCoffeeNewspapersPlentyMailGuardianEditorialsTelegraphFixtureDaily Mail Author:Lionel Barber
“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.” KnowsFirstsTwoIdeasFeelingsTurnsEmotionSeeingPagesUniqueEmptyBreathsRemainsObviousScreensDrawingCoffeeNineSymbolsCupsSensualStaringThirtyInvitesBlankDeep BreathCoffee CupBlank PagesBlankness Author:Adam Gopnik
“Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.” FeelsPainFallProcessHurtLossBrainCreativeStageCreationDrinkPagesCoffeeGoldenEggsKeep GoingManifestPanicCreative ProcessIt HurtsFalling ApartEditsGolden Eggs Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.” IfsYearsChildrenMightFacesGirlFoundGivenRoomsBoysMorningNew YorkBabyBirthPaperPagesAccountsMurderCoffeeCupsPoundsArticlesMexicoTwelveTwinsSteamTaxiOhioThirteenSeventeenCoffee CupDiningReviveNew BabyDining Rooms Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson
“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.” LightReadingHeavenAmountBedPagesAssumingCoffeeSheetsSpillingCognac Author:Stephen King
“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.” IfsWritingBelieveLittlesIdeasSometimesStoriesWhiteWonderWrittenDrinkPagesCoffeeObservationExpensivePensFountainNotebookWritten WordFetishPintsLinenFountain PensStationery Book:One Day Source: One Day
“...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.” WayTwoBookFallOne DayShapesPagesAnd LoveAddCornersCoffeeRingsValleysYellowPlasticFoldsSpineSiliconSilicon ValleyTablets Author:Russell T Davies
“And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.” WorldFeelsChoicesUniverseReadingLostFeltBitsSportsGoes OnTasteKissingPagesDrinkingCoffeeDrySunlightCleaningRippleLost MyselfDry Cleaning Book:This Lullaby Source: This Lullaby