Molly Shannon Quotes

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

On a good day I write, all day.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.

Cricket isn't the be all and end all. That doesn't mean you put in less effort or don't try as hard. You put everything into it, but at the end of the day there are bigger and better things.

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.