“I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.” MadeMistakeMissingFrontsPagesTake MeHookLanesMade A MistakeI've Made MistakesDumbasses Author:Bruce Pearl
“The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.” WantProcessWaterKnownColorPagesPaintDryDestinationTake Me Author:Joseph Raffael
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'” MenSaidTwoBookWantedJobsForgetHellWeekPagesTwentiesSorryComicTake MeComic BookI'm SorrySpidersForget ItMaking TimeSpider ManTwo Jobs Author:John Romita, Sr.
“I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.” MindDifferentFindingsPagesSittingDown AndDrawingTake MeSitting DownDifferent Directions Author:David Finch
“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
“When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingYearsI CanTwoHappensThreeNextPagesHundredNotesScriptsDialogueSettlingTake MeGarbage Author:Charlie Kaufman
“A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never outline. I let the characters take me." C'mon, man - I outline the story, but it's only like one page. It's a list of possible reversals in the story, like things where everything will just change because of this certain reveal or this certain action. Then I start really digging into the character because, to me, I don't care what the story is.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingCharacterStoriesCareActionCertainGroupsPagesDon't CareListsI Don't CareTake MeReally CoolDiggingOutlinesReversal Author:Matt de la Pena
“My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.” IfsWritingTwoDoneNovelPagesTake MeMy Boyfriend Author:S. E. Hinton
“I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.” WritingTwoHoursComputerPagesCapableAbuseGet UpI've LearnedTake MeDelicateFoolhardyDelicate Things Author:Kate DiCamillo
“...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.” I CanStoriesSeemsHoursPagesFlowTake Me Book:I Capture The Castle Source: I Capture The Castle