Writing And Disappointment Quotes

#1. If you are here because you think writing will always be fun, you're in for a disappointment. Writing
real writing
is among the most difficult work you will ever face in your life. The irony is that the harder you work at it, the harder it gets.

M. Molly Backes

#2. The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Ann Patchett

#4. Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.

Gary Lutz

#5. Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife means to me. In my heart, we are wed. In my soul, you are mine.

Charlotte Featherstone

#6. If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Phillip Gary Smith

#8. Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment.

Chloe Thurlow

#9. Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Brian Tracy

#10. In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame ...

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#11. My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Laurence Housman

#12. There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. I'm keeping my socks on until I know what you're going to do.

C. Mack Lewis

#14. This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.

Don DeLillo

#15. What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!

Piers Anthony

#16. It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Rich Robinson

#18. Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person ... Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.

Rachel Hore

#20. I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

Francine Mathews

#21. I thought using one device would be simpler.

Hillary Clinton

#22. Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

El DeBarge