Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Never give up and always believe in yourself.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

I encourage people to ask whatever question you're most interested in hearing the answer to.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

You’ve got to worry about the next play…Keep believing because people aren’t always going to like you but you have to believe in the people around you…You’re going to get knocked down but it’s how many times you get back up.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

Take risks. Never say die. It has worked for me.

What is the most important is never to give up, never to give in to circumstances, to trust yourself.

I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

I'm not the type of player who gives up.

You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.

I don't mind proving myself again and again.