John Scalzi
Related My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases th... SHILOH WALKER I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. RUPERT FRIEND SOPHIE KINSELLA ITALO CALVINO I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER BARNEY FRANK KARIN SLAUGHTER CARRIE UNDERWOOD TOMI LAHREN JASPER FFORDE I have a short attention span. TONY SCOTT ROBERT KURSON OCTAVIA BUTLER If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It&... ALEXI ZENTNER DAVID A. ADLER TEJU COLE I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a shor... MICHAEL KORS I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to th... RICKY REED DAVID MCCULLOUGH A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON E. L. 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If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get int... 
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hend... 
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a sho... 
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someon... 
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. 
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me. 
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... 
I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons an... 
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. 
I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides ... 
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... 
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make... 
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from... 
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty... 
I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like... 
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a land... 
I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post do... 
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m... 
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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th... 
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... 
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the mov... 
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. 
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it 
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from ... 
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting t... 
I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in... 
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I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff ... 
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re... 
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. 
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My attention span is very short. 
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Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
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I've loved reading all my life. 
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! 
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They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
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