Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

You have to think of them as your peers. You can't really - when you're on the course and looking up to anybody, you're saying, 'Wow, that's so and so,' that's when you get into trouble. For instance, if you're paired with them, then what do you do?

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one.

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.

I like feel-good fiction and mysteries.

When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

Wilbur Smith's novels make terrific holiday reading.

If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

There are always going to be distractions, push and shove between players. It's about rolling with the punches and enjoying every situation, good or bad.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.

Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.