Quotes About Persistence

He ordered another glass of rosé, and the second one proved as ineffective as the first.

At the outset, I want to say that we would not be here if not for you. Your detective work over the past twenty years is nothing short of brilliant. It's a miracle, actually, and I've never encountered anything like

Twenty-two years later the case is even colder and the police have all but given up. Once we realized that they were getting nowhere, I vowed to try everything to find his killer.

for showing up

into its third year

sleep a few hours in the cockpit and take off at dawn. The

For his day job, Delgado ran

Who hopes still constantly with patience shall obtain victory in their pretense.

but next day returned with a force.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.' (David Copperfield) "But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect—and their meaning was unknown—but they were there.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear.

If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.

Aber das ist es nun mal, was wir tun: wir träumen weiter gegen den Strom und unsere Träume entschlüpfen uns fast so lebendig, wie wir sie heraufbeschwören können.

First chapter ain't so bad, Jillsy said. That first chapter ain't nothin'. It's that nineteenth chapter that got me, Jillsy said. Lawd, Lawd! she crowed. You read nineteen chapters? John Wolf asked. You didn't give me no more than nineteen chapters, Jillsy said. Jesus Lawd, is there another chapter? Do they keep goin' on? No, no, John Wolf said. that's the end of it. That's all there is.

not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

From that moment on, he would never stop seeing her, not in his minds eye - not whenever he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. She would always be there.

Treading water, a little dog-paddling—it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground—you're hanging out in familiar territory.

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over—sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?