Jacqueline Briskin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.
-- Jacqueline Briskin

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Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
-- Jacqueline Briskin

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I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
-- Jacqueline Briskin

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To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.
-- Jacqueline Briskin

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It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

Jacqueline Briskin famous quotes

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