Agonize Quotes
On the careful, doubting work behind sentences and decisions.
This page brings together quotes about agonizing over craft, whether it's a book being written or a scene being performed.
I am happy with my role in 'Taxiwala.' It gave me a chance to do a character that was fun. I didn't have to agonize over every scene.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
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I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
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I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles,...
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble...
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Physicians and rock stars appear too, showing that agonizing over choices and comparisons isn't limited to any single profession or kind of work.
