Important Quote by Patti Smith

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my…

— Julia Stiles

I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother…

— Dani Shapiro

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that…

— Julia Cameron

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are…

— Dan Simmons

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the…

— Harry Houdini

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read.…

— Jonathan Kozol

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through…

— Elie Wiesel

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people…

— Darren Aronofsky

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may…

— George Benjamin

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

There is one pain I often feel which you will never know because it is caused by the absence of you.

— Anonymous