Quotes About Struggle

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.