Quotes About Commitment

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I've never abandoned the novel.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

I am a novelist through and through.

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.

A win in November is as important as a win in May.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

Once our season finishes in November, a lot of players maybe take a couple of weeks off and start training for the next year. You often usually have only a little time to work on your game and stuff.

It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!

My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.