#concentrating

I just try to concentrate on concentrating. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#concentrating #i #just #try

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field. ↗

— Brian McBride

#field #out #prepare #you #yourself

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. ↗

— John Scott

#get #i #more #older #plain

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. ↗

— John M. Ford

#characters #chosen #concentrating #effect #fictional

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. ↗

— Big Pun

#continuing #everybody #hip-hop #history #i

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters