Quotes About Challenge

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

I was in love again. I was in trouble

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

What's wrong with assholes, baby?

When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.

the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. the nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screams for your blood.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Just living until you die is hard work

I remember your saying: make it or break it. neither happened and it won't.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life.

Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it.

greater men than I have failed to agree with Life.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.