Quotes About Effort

It's like strapping toothpicks onto a newborn colt and telling him to walk. Wearing heels is a sport and I don't want to play.

How does everybody in Hollywood work? Drake asked. By fits and starts.

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body

Never mistake motion for action.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

When it's right you can't remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can't believe you did it. When it's once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you're only allowed so many in your life.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.

Easy reading is hard writing

I am like a blind pig when I work.

But, then, nothing is easy.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.