“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.” IfsWayGivingWritingTryingEnoughCertainMonthsPeriodsSixPagesSix Months Author:Judith Krantz
“If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!” IfsTryingCan DoHurtHellMonthsTenPagesIt HurtsYou Can Do ItScreenplays Author:Quentin Tarantino
“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.” YearsI CanSometimesTurnsMy OwnNovelIssuesEmotionalMonthsPagesMetaphorEnormousReactionsResolveMy Own LifeEmotional Reactions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.” IfsWritingYearsBookHardMonthsCouplePagesChunks Author:Ethan Canin
“Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)” ArtistToo MuchImagineAdventureMonthsPagesSuperhero Author:John Byrne
“One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!” WholeProblemArtistProduceMonthsIndustryShapesPagesExceptionException To The Rule Author:John Byrne
“It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.” IfsWritingTwoBookThreeProduceMonthsPagesResearchNineTake MeThree MonthsNine Months Author:Alan Furst
“Marvel is very secretive, so there was no script. About six months before production, they gave me some pages and it was from a cop movie. And then, six months later, I got a phone call saying, "Do you want to come do this?" [iron Man]” MenWantMonthsSixPagesScriptsPhonesProductionsIronCopSix MonthsPhone CallsSecretiveIron Man Author:James Badge Dale
“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
“I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.” WritingMindBookIdeasUseHandsMightFacesWeekSecurityMonthsPeriodsComputerPagesScreensPrintBlankPencilsBlanketNotebookNew BooksBlank Pages Author:Judy Blume
“They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesMadeStillsCharacterLastsLyingStuffInterestingMonthsPagesRelyCommentTravelerInstagramMaking UpFacebook Page Author:Eric McCormack
“I found out about it probably 9 - 10 months before we shot the film [Don't Kill It] because it was postponed a couple of times, which was actually a good thing because once it all finally came together, I had to get in there and roll off different pages of dialogue and monologues pretty quickly.” DifferentTogetherFilmFoundMonthsCouplePagesShotsGood ThingsDialogueMonologues Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.” I CanThreeMonthsPagesEmailThree MonthsSynopsis Author:Emmanuelle Beart
“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.” IfsWellsBookDoneThreeLostMonthsReaderAmountTenPagesTalesLengthThree Months Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.” YearsSaidRealHardLastsRealizingFailingWeekMonthsSixPagesStudiosStatementsOddSundayLast YearRemarksDeadlineVisitorsLearnersTime Off Author:Charles M. Schulz
“It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.” IfsNeedsFirstsBookMatterStoriesReadingCasesGoneFourMaterialsMonthsSixPagesBagsSix MonthsEccentricity Author:Robin McKinley
“It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.” ThinkingWritingWholeThreeProcessInterestLosesMonthsTenPagesBuyingJournalNotebookThree Months Book:Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel Source: Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel