Quotes About Struggle

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.