Quotes About Challenges

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent and speak fluently.

One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

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

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That's an insane conversation to be having.

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

The chasm between independent film and commercial film is now so wide. You either have to be super-famous and get a first-time director or writer's indie script off the ground, or you're a newcomer and go and put a cape on for four years.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.