A Quote by Tom Junod
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.
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I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.
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