Quotes about Challenge

The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.

The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.

But, then, nothing is easy.

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

That's two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?" "That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.