Quotes About Persistence

Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

You could get used to anything if you had to.

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can't.

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

Eighty percent of success is just showing up.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer's life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.

If," Roland said. "An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

El monstruo nunca muere.

He just kept picking them up and laying them down.

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.

If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.

What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls.

Writing is good. He's always wanted to do it, and now he is. That's good. Only who knew it hurt so much?

Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up.

You can rank me to the dogs and back, but I'll never lose the hard-on I use to fuck your mother.

For every failure, there's an alternativecourse of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.