Quotes About Persistence

If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

You don't ever salute losing - ever.

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

When I'm sat at 45 and retired, I want to look back and see what I've done and that I've played games rather than having come to the end of my career and tailed off.

I sat out the 1959 season.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I'd rather fail doing what I believe in and feel satisfied that I tried.

That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.

For me it's just never being satisfied with what I've done and always just wanting more and more.

I'm never satisfied.

I'm not satisfied with walking away from something and letting it beat me. That's not my spirit.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.

I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.