Quotes About Frustration

And just because I'm not standing here tearing out my hair or whatever it is you'd like me to do, it doesn't mean I'm not deeply upset.' He didn't sound deeply upset.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I personally hate psychiatrists. When I was a kid, I saw quite a few of them, and they ruin everything.

I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'

It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I have written much more than I have had published.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.

'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry.

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.