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Quotes About Frustration

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
~ Sara Paretsky
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.
~ Richard Bausch
In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!
~ Kresley Cole
The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
~ David Wells
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
~ James Newman
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.
~ Lauren Conrad
During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.
~ Janine di Giovanni
There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I experience on a daily basis. It can be very frustrating sometimes and painful, but I'm very blessed.
~ Bruce Smith
When I was 25, it was painful. I was getting out of bed in the morning and couldn't walk. But when you are young, you don't care; it will pass. But one year after another, it's like, 'Come on, give me a break!'
~ Sylvie Guillem
Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.
~ Sunil Chhetri
Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.
~ A Boogie wit da Hoodie
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
~ Richard Attenborough
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
~ Franz Wright
I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.
~ Troian Bellisario
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
~ Jenny Holzer
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
~ Paul Cezanne
I hate painting.
~ Howard Hodgkin
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.
~ Sue Perkins
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.
~ Bonnie Tyler
I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.
~ Alan Zweibel
When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman.
~ Christopher Priest
I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.
~ Sara Blakely
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
~ Demi Moore