“I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.” FeelsBookIdeasLostHalfCenturyTastePagesGood ThingsPreparedDishes20th CenturyLost YouPages Turning Author:Neil Gaiman
“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.” IfsKindLongBookTermNeededPagesPreparedResponseLibraryLong TermRejectsDevicesBe PreparedPrintedStorageProliferationSchemas Author:J. C. R. Licklider
“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
“I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.” WritingYearsMindBelieveTwoEndsMatterDoneChanceNovelTeacherPagesArgumentNo Matter WhatPreparedPaceFavourMarathonDays OffSprintStanfordPace Yourself Author:Scott Turow
“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
“There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].” ThinkingBookBigsStarsChallengesInterestingFansProjectsPagesPreparedComicSatisfyingComic BookMost InterestingBlockbusterAll StarsBombastic Author:Declan Shalvey