“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.” ThinkingWayI CanBookWholeReadingInterestingBrainOne ThingInternetComputerPagesFragmentsSurfing Author:Ali Banisadr
“When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.” ThinkingWayWantWritingLooksBookRealCharacterOne ThingPagesCastsDrawingComicComic BookOne Thing At A Time Author:Frank Miller
“[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.” WantWritingBookWholePracticeOne ThingHonorPagesSingingSeeds Author:Natalie Goldberg
“Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.” ThinkingFeelsWritingDifferentSometimesHardCertainOne ThingLike YouScenePagesNosesLiteralGood WritingSubversive Author:Chace Crawford
“I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.” LooksCharacterAudienceOne ThingFrontsExerciseScenePagesCamerasHistoricalAuthenticityDelving Author:Gary Cole
“It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.” BelieveHardEnoughRememberWaterCan DoOne ThingOughtSafePagesCleanListsEndlessAdministrationAbortionAmendmentsFourthYou Can Do ItRestoringKentuckyMinersClean WaterFourth AmendmentSlag Author:Sara Paretsky
“When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.” ThinkingWritingTryingMindI CanOne ThingReaderScenePaperPagesChapters Author:Robert Cormier
“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.” PeopleMenLoveGivingTryingKindDifferentSeemsAgeLawHateTurnsMoralOne ThingWorstPagesI HateClaimsDareLove LifeCowardiceRare ThingsMimicryAgoraphobia Author:Andre Gide