Focus Quote by Annalee Newitz

“Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and…

— John Varley

“That was the problem with training to be a spy and developing your senses to the point that I had. Now, I was constantly…

— Maya Bode

“So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but save your life in the process.”

— Francine Prose

“I tried to distract myself by reading the various things that people had carved into the tabletop over the years. I traced my finger…

— Sara C. Roethle

“I sat with my hands in my lap, because I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to…

— Jodi Picoult

“mind began growing distant. Her eyes stayed shut without her needing to clench them. Slowly, she started to doze. But then her cell began…

— Lucy Lambert

“It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye…

— Liane Moriarty

“Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration.”

— T. Sharper Knowlson

“Well, the primitive part of my brain liked it and before the more advanced portions could take a stand, it had too much momentum…

— Robert Bruce Stewart

“Coffee, creativity, keyboard. The plot thickens.”

— William Blackwell

“Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

“He crowded down the surge of feeling that distracted him from the task at hand.”

— Mar Preston