Quotes About Perseverance

In the Boston of my childhood, willpower was all-important. If you wanted something badly enough, you could have it. This maxim included curing yourself of paralysis.

Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid. Penny: So you met my mom?

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

The ones that win are the ones that ship.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band's twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the 'mature' thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.

The marathon lane is largely empty, mostly silent: the road of the damned rather than the saved.

Nietzsche tells us: be strong. What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

Have the courage to write a lousy first draft.

A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome …

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.

Each time I begin writing a new book I feel as though I'm learning to write all over again.

As a writer, you have to re-earn your chops with every new book

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won't come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

Every writer has doubts. The only way to dispel them is to write.

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

There's a novel in every life's story. You must have courage, perseverance and use imagination to unearth it.

The writing life is not for the timid. It's filled with challenge, uncertainty & frustration, but it's a beautiful, expansive & creative one