“The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.” SeemsFormGreaterProjectsMemoir Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected to the publishing world as they should be, and I have the energy and the enthusiasm to sort of gather and promote people, so I've always thought someday I might embark on a big project like that.” PeopleWorldShouldDreamBigsMightEnergyKnownForeverProjectsPressesConnectedEnthusiasmSomedayPublishingGreat Writers Author:Michelle Tea
“I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.” ThinkingYearsBookIdeasEndsHouseProcessSimpleProjectsFinishedGet BackDisgustingEliminationBack To WorkFestering Author:Colson Whitehead
“I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing and figuring out new things and hopefully people will follow me along as I publish these things.” PeopleWantIdeasFactsChallengesCareersGrowingFindingsProjectsHopefullySupposed To BeUnexpectedNew ThingsPublishFollow Me Author:Colson Whitehead
“Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.” KnowsEnoughFactsDarkCreativeProjectsResearchFollowingSensitiveDelicateFertileGleamNew Projects Author:Lauren Groff
“I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.” LyingCoursesPartyProjectsDancingStartingDeeperVideoStarting PointBirthday Party Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.” IfsWantMatterBigsRunningEnergyLinesOffersProjectsSmartEnvironmentalObviousSpeedImprovementScalesRacingCashFrozenElectricalRailRenewable EnergyFinancingDevelopersLarge ScaleGridsHigh SpeedObvious ThingsMoney MattersHigh Speed Rail Author:Denis Hayes
“I think there's no question that historians create; they would tell you that, I think. If I'm trying to imagine an imperial Roman position, it's much easier to imagine the poor schlub who's not even sure why he's doing what he's doing than it is to imagine Caesar. At least for me. And I'm intrigued, too, by the position of the poor schlub who *still* finds himself supporting the imperial project.” IfsThinkingTryingStillsPoorImaginePositionEasierProjectsHistorianIntrigued Author:Jim Shepard
“I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsWantedEarthYoungFoundFictionTalkingWrittenDirectorsProjectsScreenplaysAmbivalentHootMorris Author:Jim Shepard
“I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.” FeelsCharacterPastBitsPersonalityProjectsUniqueVulnerableNew ProjectsUnique Personality Author:Jake T. Austin
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasUseSidesDangerousBuildingProjectsCreatingToolsAnd LoveInvestingGreat IdeaYourself And Love Author:Biz Stone
“Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.” ReasonLeftProjectsInclusionCriteriaVary Author:Bent Saether
“I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.” WayProjectsFreakWorkaholicControl Freak Author:Janet Evanovich
“The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.” HumansHardPurposeHuman BeingsImagineHorrorProjectsDestructionUltimateTortureHumiliationEnslavement Author:Richard Flanagan
“As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to see that reflected via the relationships we've developed with our customers. For some people it's a political act to eat from us three days a week because they recognize they are financially supporting the premise of the project each time they come. 95% of our annual revenue is purely from the public via food sales.” PeopleWantPoliticalArtistThreeSocialWeekProjectsCustomersLocalsEngagementSophisticatedDiscourseRevenuePremisesAnnualsDynamics Author:Jon Rubin
“Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in” WellsArtistPowerfulEnvironmentGroupsWorstAchievementProjectsFoundationSecureArtisticAwardsBullyingIronicTacticsEndowmentLobbying Author:Jon Rubin
“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.” YearsLittlesLongWholeStoriesJobsFourWrittenProjectsYears AgoCollectionsFour YearsUnsure Author:Arthur Bradford
“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.” NeedsFeelsWritingLongBookDoneWholeMightOrderForgetNovelProjectsLong TimeQuestioning Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.” Has BeensMilitaryProjectsSizeIsisIndianaUs Military Author:Jeb Bush
“I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.” WantStillsBookFailingMiddleProjects Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.” BookEnjoyNumbersProjects Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look up to, and who are overflowing with talent, that work with me on each project.” LooksReasonTalentLuckyMembersProjectsDrawsLook UpStaffAnimatorStaff Members Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.” ThinkingLongRealProcessAnxietyProjectsDelightDrawingStringsThrillAnimation Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantChildrenAbleNextGivenChanceWatchesPossibilityThis WorldProjectsAdultsGratefulShiningAnimatedBoundlessSparklingAnimated Movies Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.” PeopleTryingCertainCompanyTechnologyProductsHugeSkillsProjectsTeenagerServantDepartmentDevotedSiteIncentivesBeneficialClicks Author:Astra Taylor
“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.” IfsWellsLittlesCoursesFoundBlackInformationMaterialsSourceEasierLuckyProjectsLettersDifficultyCome UpHolesMemoirPrimariesNonfictionInherentDiariesBlack HolePrimary Source Author:Debra Dean
“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingKindLittlesI CanBookDifferentBigsSeemsMightArtistDarkComfortableProjectsStartingMindsetBoredomThinkerDifferent KindsAvenuesNew BooksNew ProjectsBig Book Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.” ThinkingWantSaidStuffDifferencesGoneReaderProjectsTendencies Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.” ThinkingSaidI CanStoriesRememberNextWaitingProjectsGoldVisitingWaiting For You Author:Mary J. Miller
“I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.” IfsKnowsWritingTryingKindIdeasSeemsSchoolVoiceProjectsHigh SchoolExcitedChoirWriting Music Author:Panda Bear
“Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.” PeopleSocialStudyPerspectiveProjectsIndividualityMasterySocial Science Author:L. Todd Rose
“After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.” FilmTvsProjectsPopsFocusedProducersScoreSoundtracks Author:Paul Wardingham
“My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.” IfsWould BeProjectsAlbumsSoloVocalist Author:Paul Wardingham
“I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.” MindFirstsSongFiveProjectsMusicalAlbumsAmbitiousArtwork Author:St. Lucia
“Look out for each other. I think the more we support each other as a community, the more successful we will be. I'm a part of Film Fatales, a collective of women directors who meet to share advice and provide support for each other's projects. I think the more we can build an old girls' network to rival the old boys' network, the better off we will be.” ThinkingLooksFilmGirlCommunityBoysSupportSuccessfulShareAdviceDirectorsProjectsCollectivesBetter OffRivals Author:Sian Heder
“Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.” DifferentArtistWatchesMinutesProjectsReally Amazing Author:Matt Squire
“It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.” KnowsWantRealStoriesDifficultSupportProjectsOutcomesFundingHesitantFinanciers Author:Chris Hegedus
“I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.” PeopleThinkingAbleProjectsGood People Author:Peter Jacobson
“You do hear from people that the things that you have done or projects you have worked on have made an impact on people's lives. I think it is important to take that seriously and to recognise that you are being followed and watched by some degree in what you do and you should use that. It's a real blessing to be able to make an impact on people's lives and to use that for the bettering of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeImportantRealDoneUseAbleBlessingDegreesProjectsImpactRecognise Author:Bridgit Mendler
“Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.” DoneActorsProductsProjectsDistanceScreensShort Lived Author:Maggie Siff
“For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.” KnowsFeelsEndsDirectorsProjectsProfoundInvestmentDeveloping Author:Maggie Siff
“I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.” PeopleKindDifferentShowsRocksInvolvedBandProjectsHip HopSellingHipsHopsDifferent KindsJam Author:Boots Riley
“Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.” ThinkingFeelingsKnowingProjectsConstantDissatisfactionTime To Leave Author:Leni Zumas
“I like to go to the movies at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. They do this thing in The Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood where everybody sits out on the grass and they project movies and it's very romantic and very old-school Hollywood, so I love that.” SchoolForeverProjectsHollywoodGrassCemeteryOld SchoolVery Romantic Author:Bonnie McKee
“I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other projects with people who might see you and recommend for other projects and vice versa.” PeopleI CanMightProjectsMouthsVicesVice VersaWord Of Mouth Author:Michelle Glick
“Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.” PeopleWholeTogetherProjectsDogmaScreening Author:Michelle Glick
“If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.” IfsKnowsNeedsBookPurposeReadingStuffSpaceWhitePiecesWrittenProjectsPagesStonesSentencesAcceptedCrapPrintedSpoken WordAnthologyPrinted WordWhite SpaceProsody Author:Richard Meltzer
“I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasFactsStoriesUseProjectsMarriedPresses Author:John Krasinski
“The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."” IfsWantTryingSaidCountryTurnsHeavenDevelopmentProjectsAidsLocalsOur CountryChiefsOfficials Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.” SocialCuttingStreetsWallRepublicanActivityProjectsProgramSpeedCriminalsAdministrationSocial ProgramsMalfeasance Author:Chris Hedges