“You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.” FictionNovelFuturePagesHarderScience FictionFasterFiction Novels Book:Adventures in the Dream Trade Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade
“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
“When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.” IfsWayWritingTryingMindSaidStillsSometimesMatterDoneMightFacesOrderTurnsCoursesReadingVoiceSilenceReaderPagesHarderLuckPrivacyYour FaceSanityThings DoneMercifulHysteriaBlancheDubois Book:Young Hearts Crying Source: Young Hearts Crying
“I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.” IfsFirstsRealizingFourStudentsPagesHundredHarderFinished Author:Yiyun Li
“It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.” MayHardTodayGuyGamesWeekPagesTrainingHarderEightFocusedVideoCampsSeptemberSalaryAprilCapsPlaying GamesTraining CampSalary Caps Author:Wayne Gretzky
“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
“Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.” PeopleWritingIdeasSoundSupportTearsPagesHarderComparisonEditorsBounceSupport You Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.” DifficultTruth IsPagesHarderSoapDiscworldBathtubs Author:Terry Pratchett