Miriam Toews Quotes

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.