top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Prejudices save time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait."
Writing
"Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it."
Writing
"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
Writing
"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
Writing
"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe."
Love
"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
Writing
"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
Books
"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
Writing
"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
Books
"I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun."
Time
bottom of page