Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. Peter Benchley
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. Joan Didion
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. Andre Agassi
Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher. Mike Piazza
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.Max Muller
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. Annie Dillard
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski
You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space. Erwin McManus
You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that. LeBorn Jemes
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! Kris Carr
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home. James Lee Burke
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal. Bo Jackson
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. Gerry Cooney
You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time. Maurice Greene
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. Paul Auster
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive. Floyd Mayweather Jr
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. Nomar Garciaparra