Writing Struggles Quotes

#1. 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

#2. From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.

Henry Rollins

#3. I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

Susie Orbach

#4. It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

Vladimir Putin

#5. I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

Kate Brown

#6. I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#7. It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Taylor Swift

#8. Parallel Realities: While people sit in a coffee shop talking about their problems, challenges and struggles, I sit among them writing books with the solutions.

Robin Sacredfire

#9. They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

Joyce Rachelle

#10. Simply read a child's story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

John S. Savage

#11. I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming the struggles that I have faced in the music industry. I have so much more to tell my fans, and I know so much more about myself. It is crazy how much I have grown over these past years.

Jessica Sanchez

#12. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

#13. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

Emily Giffin

#15. Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

Tom Cruise

#16. There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they're not faithful to their audience.

Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

#17. The personal eloquence of other people expressing aspects of nature and human condition inspire us, as do persons whom exhibit courage to gain strength when dealing with the hardships and struggles of a mortal life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Aristotle.

#19. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

Aimee Bender

#20. Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Samantha Morton

#21. What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.

Tobias Wolff

#22. I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Joyce Rachelle

#23. Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle

Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#24. Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

Kelly Gallagher

#25. Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

Lord Byron

#26. The Four Stages of Writer's Block
W.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage I: I don't want to write but I have to.
W.B. Stage I: I don't have time for writing ... and, honestly, I don't feel like writing.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#27. Define your path and travel on this path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

Mehmet Murat Ildan