#agony

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#book #buy #comes #course #i

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#agony #bearing #greater #inside #old story

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#carved #marble #out #statue #work

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do. ↗

— Leon Uris

#agony #enjoy #i #i think #joy

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#always #been #course #difficult #disappearing