“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.” StillsCountryShowsLastsWonderfulBrotherPagesSlaveOur CountryGloriousLinksForgedFetters Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi
“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.” IfsWritingIdeasWonderfulCreatingPagesEmptyBasesExcitingOriginalsPlusWonderful ThingsThrillingTypingCreating Something Author:Carl Reiner
“I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.” IfsYearsLongBookCharacterLastsWinningNovelRichWonderfulPagesHistoricalDetailsFavorsHistorical Novels Author:Colleen Coble
“You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.” ThinkingKnowsLastsNextCareersKnow HowWonderfulPagesDiverse Author:Jack Welch
“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.” IfsWritingKindHardThreeWonderfulMaterialsHard WorkDependsPagesFlowMeaningfulSatisfyingThickness Author:Steve Guttenberg
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor and it comes alive, in a way that you didn't expect.” WayGivingDifferentActorsAliveWonderfulCreaturesPagesInstruments Author:Kelly Masterson
“You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.” WayNeedsMomentsHelpingActorsBehindsFiveWonderfulTearsTomorrowScenePagesCome UpCoachesAmazedCastingBehind YouGreat Actors Author:Courtney B. Vance
“The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me to see the process - not just the result, the red carpet, all of the wonderful, fun things that happen afterwards - the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty, "Let's try to build this character from the page," tech rehearsals.” TryingWellsCharacterHappensFunProcessResultsNiceWonderfulDirectorsPagesRedNutsCarpetRehearsalReally NiceBoltsRed CarpetFun ThingsNuts And Bolts Author:Condola Rashad