Quotes About Dedication

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love… -p. 131

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself

el eterno ideal era un hombre austero, que solo vivía para la misión a la que era destinado, para la mejora de la Realidad y para incrementar la suma de la felicidad humana.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicación fanática. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzarán las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas páginas inútiles y demasiados amoríos frustrados.

The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

Our land only rewards those who work hard in it.

I must admit that I didn't choose journalism, I was caught off guard; the profession simply sank its claws into me. It was love at first sight, a sudden passion that has determined a large part of my life.

Ja verujem da se naporan rad uvek nagradjuje.

Pasión es entusiasmo incontenible, energía exuberante y entrega decidida a algo o a alguien. Lo bueno de la pasión es que nos impulsa hacia delante y nos mantiene comprometidos y jóvenes. Me he estado entrenando durante años para llegar a ser una anciana apasionada, tal como otros se entrenan para escalar montañas o competir en ajedrez. No quiero que la cautela propia de los años destruya mi pasión por la vida.

I can't criticize mothers' obsessive love because that's probably the only reason why species have survived, from bats to technocrats. Nor

Passion is unbridled enthusiasm, exuberant energy, and determined devotion to someone or something.

I have been training for years to be a passionate old woman, just as others train to climb mountains or play chess

Pasión es entusiasmo incontenible, energía exuberante y entrega decidida a algo o a alguien. Lo bueno de la pasión es que nos impulsa hacia delante y nos mantiene comprometidos y jóvenes.

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.