Quotes About Adversity

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

Comedy comes out of everyone's worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It's always about someone being locked out of their house or someone being dumped or whatever.

I try not to feel too embattled. I don't think that's a healthy approach for someone who writes for a newspaper like the New York Times to take. That means, in part, that I try and avoid wallowing in things that might make me feel too embattled.

I feel upset when someone writes something which isn't true about me. I cry, sulk, fight with everybody and the next day I'm fine!

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

Only he with the hobbled foot knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can appreciate what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us. That we in our sinful souls can ever imagine charity- 'She can't go on for a moment. 'We may not always be able to practice charity, but that in this world we can even imagine it at all! That act of daring requires the greatest challenge

Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.

In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Lost is not an address, it's not permission to fail, it's not an excuse.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Come what may and hell to pay.