Attention Quote by Frederick Busch Download Open image “It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.” — Frederick Busch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Books Fiction Hard It takes time Real Take time Time
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
