Quotes About Commitment

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

But listen, I must finish Lawrence, Joyce & Proust. It's driving me nuts. I feel like a slacker. I'll spit them out alive, if necessary. I'm screwed up to a frenzy. Vino, vino . . . I wish I had the taste for it. Vino isn't strong enough. It's blood I want. Henry

I think sometimes that perhaps I have been unfair to put my writing above everything else. I am a man and I want my woman. If writing interferes then to hell with writing.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

Our hankering for a state of leisure or leisure state is the proof of the fact that most of us are working at a task to which we could never have been called by anyone but a salesman, certainly not by God or by our own natures. Traditional craftsmen whom I have known in the East cannot be dragged away from their work, and will work overtime to their own pecuniary loss. Why Exhibit Works of Art?

Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements—endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart.... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.

Martyr, c'est pourir un peu.

Messieurs, il faut aimer son aigle, l'aimer pour qu'il devienne beau ; car c'est parce qu'il sera beau que vous devez aimer votre aigle...

Once I had made my mind up, I could see nothing but the advantages.

Nu Å£in cu orice preÅ£ s? parvin, mi-a spus cu un zâmbet fermec?tor, dar Å£in ca ideile pentru care lupt s? izbîndeasc?.

If, as I say, I did not love my betrothed, at any rate, I had never loved any other woman.

The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.

marriage nothing but a lugubrious barter with slavery as its upshot.

I took her hand trembling. Whatever I hope to become later is for you. But Jerome, I may leave you too. My soul went into my words: I shall never leave you. She raised her shoulders slightly: Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Dice sul serio?" "Sul lavoro non scherzo mai", replica duro il delegato. E nemmeno fuori dal lavoro, se è per questo.

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

I want writers to write books because they are committed to the content of those books. I want writers to write books as actions. I want writers to write books that can make a difference in how, and even why, people live. I want writers to write books that are worth being jailed for, worth fighting for, and should it come to that in this country, worth dying for.

So, unless you've embezzled money outright or murdered someone and want me to hide the body, I won't be getting in any deeper than I already am.

If you're looking for pity, forget it, Connie retorted. You've passed up more dates than I care to count. You're married to your work. A pause. And maybe to the past.

For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.

Cinema is a very difficult and serious art, it requires sacrificing of yourself. You should belong to it, it shouldn't belong to you. Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.