Sean O'Casey Quotes

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Change is such hard work.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.

There is no success without hardship.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Easy is not an option!

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.