“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.” PastForceGoalChallengesWhiteCreativePagesAdvantageCreative WorkPast SuccessCirque Du Soleil Author:Guy Laliberte
“One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBookGoalTalkingPagesNonfiction Author:Thomas Cahill
“As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsBookFallGoalAchievePagesHappeningsI Want You Author:George R. R. Martin
“Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.” ThinkingWritingLooksMayBookEndsLiteratureGoalPerfectPaperPagesPerfectionUnattainableMay Not Be Perfect Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.” IfsWayWholeStoriesGoalFrontsPagesCome UpNewspapersStorytellingUnusual Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.” PeopleNightGoalCryReaderPagesExhaustedDrained Author:Jillian Medoff
“My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.” BookTogetherGoalShapesPagesThemeWorking TogetherCrucialPlacement Author:Chris Raschka
“I think that what kind of is making this different is the creative group of us that has come together and we're all kind of on the same page working towards the same goal. So it is a real collaborative effort of our hearts more than it is oh you have the writer, you have the director, the producer, whatever.” ThinkingHeartKindDifferentRealTogetherGoalEffortCreativeGroupsDirectorsPagesProducersAll KindsCollaborative Effort Author:Boti Bliss