Extra effort Quote by Cyril Connolly

“you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless hair trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over a chronic…

— David Rakoff

“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes…

— Gary Shteyngart

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“enjoying a tranquillity in which I won’t write the works I don’t write now, and to keep on not writing them I’ll come up…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that,…

— Lauren B. Davis

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Unless you write yourself, you can’t know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn’t draw, but now…

— Anne Frank