Quotes About Dedication

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

None arrives at the races, purchases Daily Racing Form, and within minutes begins to play.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.

Many more Mondays, many more games.

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.

I drive. That's what I do. All I do.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

If you're still stuck, re-watch Misery and imagine that your number one fan insists that you finish by the end of the month.

at least ten writing sessions.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

You know wherever I am, I'll come running to see you again

Don't get it right, get it written.

He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.

He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase.

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.