Quotes about Perseverance

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.