The hardest thing about writing is writing. — Nora Ephron

I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner. — Michael Caine

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. — Romy Schneider

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. — Nora Ephron

We are all failures — at least the best of us are. — J.M. Barrie

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman

Life is very weird, no matter how it ends, very filled with dreams. — “Vita Nova,” Louise Glück

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.” — Haruki Murakami