Quotes About Achievement

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.

The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.