Struggling Writer Quotes

#1. I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden

#2. I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

#3. It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.

Teodor Burnar

#5. So many things happen that we can't control, its best not to worry about what we can. Believing you can change the world has a terrible effect on one's ego.

Bauvard

#6. The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

Ben Bernanke

#7. In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God's view of man nearly so much as He came to improve man's view of God and to plead with them to love their Heavenly Father as He has always and will always love them.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#8. Mr. Baptiste, I love Sid with all that I am and I would greatly treasure the opportunity to spend the rest of our lives showing her just how much she means to me.

M. Yvonne Jones

#9. Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

Matthew Arnold

#10. As a writer, she was struggling. As an accomplice to the wholesale drug trade, she was setting new benchmarks for excellence in felony crime. The

Nell Zink

#11. I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Linda Sanchez

#12. This is one Fruit Loop beyond certifiable.

Darynda Jones

#13. In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.

Charles Bracelen Flood

#14. How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#15. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. Sometimes the past has a way of stealing your future.

Liz Strange

#17. I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Margaret Thatcher

#18. Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

Taslima Nasrin

#19. I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

Toni Morrison

#20. He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

Cory Doctorow

#21. It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me ... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Epictetus

#22. You have only one life, make the most of it

Louis Sachar

#23. 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

#24. It is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#25. Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Brendan I. Koerner