young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as…

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

— Mason Cooley

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps…

— Virginia Woolf

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will…

— Ernest Hemingway

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none

— Cristina Orante

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

— Anonymous

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin.…

— David Eddings

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

It's hard to find a writer that really understands the intricacies of flirting and the development of love, the development of getting to know…

— Noah Centineo

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard…

— Sandra Brown

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why…

— Fran Lebowitz

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's…

— Jesmyn Ward

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

— Stephen Baxter

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong…

— Georgette Mosbacher