Quotes About Patience

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

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

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

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, 'I wish I could play well already - or just stop.' But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

Everyone has a bad day now and then.

This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

I'm going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I'll just start going nuts on Twitter.

You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.

Hitting coach John Mallee, he comes to the ballpark way too early for me, man. He drives me nuts.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

My only objective is to train hard and hopefully get a chance to play, and take it with both hands.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.