effort Quotes

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I do my job like I breathe.