Quotes About Challenge

To escape from fire men will plunge into boiling water.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

My big fish must be somewhere.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

You roll back to me.

That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Fuck literature.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.

I wish to marry her . . . But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.

The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I sin?

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.