Hard Quotes

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

A lot of girls that work really hard and have had long careers, and stay grounded. I love Carolyn Murphy, she is gorgeous. All the VS Angels! They work super hard and have the sweetest personalities.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.