“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.” IfsKnowsDoeStoriesDifferencesAudienceMaterialsTablesDinnerDinner Table Author:Jackie Mason
“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
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldMindStoriesFeelingsHappensWould BeAbleSidesEmotionNeededCapableSittingConcernedTablesOneselfIntellectNobleAffectedColossal Author:John Ruskin
“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.” IfsWayWritingLittlesStoriesHandsSeemsWaitingHoursCommonEnemyWeekPeriodsTablesSubmitProcrastinationDesksAvoidingChained Book:This Year You Write Your Novel Source: This Year You Write Your Novel