Asne Seierstad Quotes

The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.

I had great moments in my life and I'm happy with what I achieved.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.