Frank Luntz Quotes

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

If you ain't first, you're last!

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.