Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus AureliusNothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.
Marilyn MonroeCertainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
Ernest HemingwayEach age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou HoltzWorking with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.
Kevin HartI played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny YoungmanI’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
Haruki MurakamiWe will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
George W. BushHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da VinciI’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
J. K. RowlingI write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry PratchettI don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
Paulo CoelhoEffort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon HillReduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon HillI worked my face off.
Frank OceanI like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry PratchettGlory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma GandhiThe best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will RogersWe may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Mahatma GandhiIf you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston ChurchillNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
EpictetusI remember very little about writing the first series of ‚Hitchhiker’s.‘ It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.
Douglas AdamsI was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.
Alice MunroI don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.
Stephen HawkingSuccess is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily DickinsonDon’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco ChanelEight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
Barack ObamaI was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice WalkerI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouIf you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother TeresaHaving listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy WinehouseMarch on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Khalil GibranI pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Abraham LincolnA veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard ShawI don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Ray BradburyThe journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao TzuNo problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
VoltaireWriting and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya AngelouI would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya AngelouOpportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
J. K. RowlingIf there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas CarlylePatience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
Joyce MeyerWhile working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice MunroI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James BaldwinPeople are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice MunroNo man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard ShawI struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘
J. ColeI think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.
Lando NorrisTo hold a pen is to be at war.
VoltaireYou have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.
Tom BradyEven the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van GoghI’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Lana Del ReyI always have to be writing.
Taylor SwiftAll through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Paul AusterIt is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
Jim CarreyThere is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
Margaret AtwoodSometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
Joyce Meyer