Quotes About Dedication

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.

She had chosen me and it was as simple as that.

If you are going to try, go all the way, otherwhise don't even start.

Too many writers write for the wrong reasons. They want to get famous or they want to get rich or they want to get laid by the girls with bluebells in their hair... When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing, but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it. When it's stuffed in your ears, nostrils, under your finger nails. It's when there's no hope but that.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.

But it's all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in their shoes. The guys who slept on the floor.

roll the dice if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't get into it. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, alcoholism, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation.

All right, one of the women said, we know you think you're too good for this job. Too good? Yes, your attitude. You think we didn't notice it? That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Find what you love and let it kill you. a

it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

If you're going to try, go all the way.

Get a man who works for nothing and you get a man who just likes to hang around. I

My dear, find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, so if death is imminent, it is so much better to be killed by a lover.

knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Find what you love and let it kill you

Find something you love - and let it kill you

still, one needs the exercise— this writing game: only the brain and soul get worked-out. quit your bitching and do it. while other people are sleeping you're lifting a mountain with rivers of poems running off.

It was best to stay away from other writers and just do your work…

remembered how my father used to come home each night and talk about his job to my mother. The job talk began when he entered the door, continued over the dinner table, and ended in the bedroom where my father would scream "Lights Out!" at 8 p.m., so he could get his rest and his full strength for the job the next day. There was no other subject except the job.

Janeway Smithson had been on the job for twenty-five years and was dumb enough to be proud of it. He

Find what you love and let it kill you. - Charles Bukowski