David Eddings Quotes

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Writing bores me so.

I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Modeling sucks.

I can't think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I've already lost interest in.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

There's nothing worse than doing something you really don't enjoy.

I just lost interest in performing.

I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.

I went to school like everyone else, but I hated it, and I always had a lot of problems. Even my younger brother Guglielmo is the same way: we can't stay cooped up in a room for hours, listening.

I don't like fun stuff.

It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.

I only complained in school, as I did not like studying.