“Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.” IfsWayGivingWritingTryingChanceEasierScenePagesScreensStuckStaringFinding YourselfBlankChances AreBlank Pages Author:Laini Taylor
“I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.” WantFeelsTryingBookShowsHard WorkEasierPagesHarderWork Harder Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.” FeelsStillsBookIdeasCharacterReadingGivenJudgingReaderEasierThousandPagesFaultsGenerosityNailsBook Reading Author:Fay Weldon
“Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done.” TwoDonePlayWholeRunningAbleActorsLostEasierScenePagesTheaterGuaranteesSecondsRefreshingAlleyways Author:Dylan O'Brien
“There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.” ThinkingWellsWholeOrderLanguageTheoryEasierComputerPagesMaking ChangesHarmonious Author:Robert Caro
“When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.” FirstsLittlesPersonsIdeasWholeNextBitsProcessGoneEasierLittle BitPagesUniversalNo IdeaDocumentsPursued Author:DJ Shadow
“I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?” KnowsTryingIdeasNovelWrittenMonthsCoupleEasierPagesKillingProcrastinationScreenplaysKickingKilling Myself Author:Colson Whitehead
“One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.” ThinkingWorldFirstsImportantCharacterStoriesEasyMistakeNovelEasierPagesHundredShort Story Author:Yiyun Li
“I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.” ThinkingTryingFocusEasierPagesStorytelling Author:Jim Lee
“I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.” ThinkingWritingSongEasierPagesStructureStrictMeter Author:Jeff Tweedy
“For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard to exert control over it, to think, 'Well, this could be different. This could go in the opposite order, there could be more here and less there.' For other people, it's much easier to have rules and a methodology, but much harder to let loose and allow their feelings to come pouring out on the page. They're more shy or they're just more distant from their emotions. I think everybody starts with one or the other.” PeopleThinkingWellsDifferentHardFeelingsOrderEasyStuffEmotionWonderfulEasierPagesOppositesHarderShyOver ItSpontaneousPouringMethodologyBe Spontaneous Author:Alice Mattison
“I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything. It's getting a lot easier.” TryingLooksUseFansEasierPagesNoise Author:Jen Kirkman
“When you have a full page of well-written dialogue that has a thought process to it, it is pretty easy to memorize. It's a lot easier to memorize than if you're in a scene and other people are talking, and you have maybe one word or one sentence that you have to interject at the right time and in a natural way.” PeopleIfsWayWellsEasyProcessNaturalTalkingWrittenEasierScenePagesSentencesDialogueRight TimeOne WordWell WrittenThought ProcessOne Sentence Author:Sandra Bullock
“If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.” IfsThinkingWritingThreeNextEasierPagesToughLuckFinishedNext Day Author:Philip Pullman
“[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.” WayGivingMadeSelfSocialInformationEasierPagesMade ItMailVisibility Author:Clay Shirky
“So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)” LittlesBigsSoundNumbersMillionsStageEasierPagesDancerInternalsBroadwayCaffeinePissed Off Author:Deb Caletti
“You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.” IfsNeedsFeelsKindImportantMightMovingWhiteColorEasierPaperPagesStonesSticksBlowPostsLastingSquaresSay AnythingCheerfulSomewhere ElseIntimidatingCompactFriendlinessFestiveWhite Paper Author:Erin Morgenstern