#persist

Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work. Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book. ↗

— Bernard Schaffer

#writing #family

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#american #american dream #anything #build #dream

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#actually #belief #believe #between #books

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#asking #democracy #only #ought #persists

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#combination #make #persistence #perspiration #success

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#because #creating #fail #failure #lack

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#error #him #his #law #man

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#crap #get #good #gradually #i