Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.