Jack Gantos Quotes

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.

Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.

I get bored very easily.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

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 get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.