Quotes About Dedication

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

It's important to put it like that: not "I am a writer," but rather "I write stories." If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you're in danger of thinking that you're the most important thing. But you're not. The story is what matters, and you're only the servant. Your job is to get it out on time and in good order.

To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're a doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.

I was sure that I was going to write stories myself when I grew up. It's important to put it like that - not I am a writer, but rather I write stories. If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you're in danger of thinking that you're the most important thing. But you're not. The story is what matters, and you're only the servant, and your job is to get it out on time and in good order.

It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.

He was her devoted slave by this time; he would have followed her to the ends of the earth.

As long as I live. As long as I live...

The present Mr. Parslow was teaching his son the craft; the two of them and their three workmen would scramble like industrious termites over the scaffolding they'd erected at the corner of the library, or over the roof of the chapel, and haul up bright new blocks of stone or rolls of shiny lead or balks of timber. The

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.

In the ass is how you create loyalty.

That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

The ordeal is part of the commitment Esquire Interview 10/10

Inhibition doesn't grow on trees, you know—takes patience, takes concentration, takes a dedicated and self-sacrificing parent and a hard-working attentive little child to create in only a few years' time a really constrained and tight-ass human being.

This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.

It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.

you do the work, it will eventually turn into money!

Shed sweat—not blood

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible.

Neurotic obsessed suffering is essential for greatness.

In the information age, the barriers just aren't there," he said. "The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.