Quotes about Dedication

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?