“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.” MindKindBookIdeasMomentsStoriesDecisionOriginalsDetermineThat MomentBreakfastShort StoryCerealOriginal IdeasSecond ThoughtsBreakfast Cereal Author:Douglas Adams
“What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.” LongEndsStoriesTodayTogetherDogTwentiesBoundsSingersCuriousIslandsBuyingBreakfastItalianExcessAltarsPhiladelphiaBuffetsLong IslandVendorsBridal Author:Caitlin Flanagan