Quotes about Persistence

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

When your art fails, make better art.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you're screwed.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

have found that this journey from no to yes with myself is not a single trip, but ultimately a lifelong journey. I have been on this journey for a long time and expect to be on it for as long as I live.