Ricky Reed Quotes

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

I've got no attention span.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I was home, trying to draw, I would be working on math problems. I never end up doing exactly what I should be doing at at any given time.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

My attention span was not great.

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

I don't mind being distracted.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.