“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesAgePastNamesInterestToo MuchPagesForgottenImmortalityThrownVolumeIdleBoastAnecdotes Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.” BelieveHandsToo MuchPagesDon't BelieveBlockBlankEditsMantrasWriter's BlockBlank Pages Author:Jodi Picoult
“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
“I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.” KnowsWorldFeelsWritingTryingBookCharacterStoriesSeemsMightChoicesLostToo MuchMaterialsPagesDown AndFormalOutlinesMain Characters Author:Michael Chabon
“I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.” GivingTryingCharacterJobsOrderActorsToo MuchAliveJourneyPagesCamerasLikes Author:John Barrowman
“I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust your gut and hope for the best.” GivingEndsToo MuchPagesThese DaysGutsThe End Of The DayHoping For The BestTrust Your Gut Author:Greg Capullo
“Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you're done. The magic is what you did, not what you're doing.” GivingWritingBookDoneEyeFantasyToo MuchMagicCreationReturnPagesEmbraceNotionHeavySentencesCyclesAestheticNailsEpicHammersWizardsChokeLoftyParagraphWandsNewtsHippoMagic WandsToo Much Power Author:Chuck Wendig
“The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.” WayGivingTryingKindFeelingsLastsToo MuchPagesEnteringSimplestGiving Too Much Author:Zadie Smith
“I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.” KnowsWayHeartShowsWould BeStrongToo MuchAnxietyPagesBackboneHeart Attack Author:Alan Ball
“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.” KnowsWellsHas BeensTwoIdeasSelfEnoughMomentsLightEyeSufferingTurnsThreeMy OwnFiveToo MuchPiecesFourPaperPagesMouthsShadowMoodTeethFirmNosesConfusedThrownSquaresPlasticKnow MeAngleWrinklesRippleMultiplicity Book:The Tent Source: The Tent
“What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.” IfsWantHandsWould BeLastsChoicesAsksWishToo MuchPagesListenersSkulls Author:Margaret Atwood