Quotes About Dedication

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

When I asked him what he meant by desire, he answered, "I mean wanting something very intensely and with longing—having something that you want to get and that you don't want to live without, so that you become willing to alter existing habits and conditions, so that they become less important than getting what you want.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

Writing isn't magic, it's work; earning a living as a writer means showing up at the typewriter every day, whether you feel like it or not.

Knowing the price and choosing to pay it and keep on paying it, over and over again—that's what makes him invincible.

I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

I wasn't nearly as good as he was, I knew, but I could at least try to stay in the game.

loop, okay?" She met

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. And yet, in an odd way, I know they're sincerely trying to help me.

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

I don't even know why you bothered to put Finnick and me through training, Plutarch," I say.

Even when people think you're wrong, you keep trying.

A mi no se'm permet apostar, però, si pogués, ho faria per tu.

One time, I spent three days mixing paint until I found the right shade for sunlight on white fur. You see, I kept thinking it was yellow. but it was much more than that. Layers of all sorts of color. One by one.

Always," he murmurs.

just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.