Quotes About Struggling Writers

#1. Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

Alan Furst

#2. Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Tom Bodett

#3. Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

Nancy Meyers

#4. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

#5. I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.

Marina Keegan

#6. (Looking at the tree) Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.

Samuel Beckett

#7. Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

Barack Obama

#8. Two forces, fear and power,come together at a place called BEGIN. Bust through the fear to get to the power and BEGIN the life you are entitled to live.

Toni Sorenson

#9. I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

C.P. Snow

#10. Passion and Carrier will never coincide for most of the people. If it does, they are considered to be legends!!

Nelson Jack

#11. Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

John Von Neumann

#14. The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

William Devane