I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.  Doris Lessing quotes Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence. Orison Sweet Marden quotes Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand quotes Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran quotes Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank quotes I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. Ernest Hemingway quotes I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher quotes You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain quotes The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards. Ernest Hemingway quotes | 
