Quotes About Commitment

I've dedicated my life in public service to defeating climate change.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

I write relationship columns for a couple of publications.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

I can never say no - I hate saying no to anything - so whenever my agent rings up and says, 'I've got a new job for you' or my publicist says, 'you've got to be here on this day,' I'm always like, 'yay, ok, great!'

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.