Quotes About Patience

The ideal course of life is not always easy.

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

I thought, 'Nobody wants this book, and I'm an idiot for having worked on it so hard.' But to succeed in writing, you must be willing to look stupid for a long time. 'Pachinko' took so long because I got it wrong so many times.

I'm a parent, and my kids think I'm an idiot.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.

I'm very heavily trolled, but one learns to ignore such thing.

The best way to deal with aggression is to ignore it and try to get the match over as soon as possible.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then it would take a few months.