“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.” KnowsChildrenStoriesThreeForeverMinutesTypeSkillsEssentialsPagesLettersAssumingPainfulHuntingTyping Author:Susan Mitchell
“I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.” FirstsHappensFeltWaitingMinutesLike YouPagesScripts Author:Denzel Washington
“I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.” PeopleKindLittlesPersonsNightSocialBitsEnjoyMorningMinutesTenLittle BitPagesCorrespondingFacebook PageChecking Out Author:Chris Frantz
“With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.” AbleDifficultNumbersMinutesTelevisionPagesPreparedBe Prepared Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.” WayWritingLittlesRealHardCharacterShowsHoursSpaceHalfEconomyFiveMinutesPagesTwentiesSeriesThirtyFortyPilotsIntroducingEstatesPremisesHalf Hours Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein
“I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.” CoursesReadingMinutesPagesShotsSpeedComprehensionSpeed Reading Author:Brian Regan
“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.” PeopleWayMindTwoSimpleAttentionAudienceMinutesPagesPreparedImpressionPay AttentionFrame Of MindGags Author:Frank Caliendo
“In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.” KnowsWorldWayMindEndsCharacterFormSpaceNovelMinutesSecurityPagesHollywoodThirtyContractsConsolationTransportImplicitHollywood Movies Author:Junot Diaz
“I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.” WorldFeelsWritingLittlesEndsSometimesEnoughMinutesColorInvolvedPagesThe End Of The Day Author:Andrea Gabriel
“Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.” MindI CanBodyLanguageHoursWalksMinutesPagesSittingTwentiesGet UpDesks Author:Paul Auster
“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.” PeopleYearsChildrenMadeSaidI CanRememberThreeFourMinutesGoes OnReaderTenConversationPagesYears AgoMemoirDialogueEthicalSixtySmall ChildPact Author:Paul Auster
“Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute... er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.” KindCoursesWaitingEmotionFansMinutesTheoryPagesNightmareEmailBerriesTextingWeb Page Author:Christine Sneed
“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.” WritingLongBookIdeasFiveMinutesOffersPagesHundredFoolishnessExpandingProceduresCommentarySummaryLong Book Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.” WantTwoBookInterestSecretMinutesFieldsExpressionPagesReflectionRomanticDepthTheatreIntimateStalkingHopeless RomanticLiterary LoveDepth Of Field Book:Vintage Ondaatje Source: Vintage Ondaatje
“Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different” ThinkingKnowsDifferentPlayStoriesTurnsMinutesSpecialTalentTenPagesKarmaPianoDeadlineHidden Talents Author:Jennifer Estep
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.” BookMovingReadingMinutesPagesFiftyPrintBuried Author:Carol Shields