“Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.” IfsWayMeanPovertyTerribleTasteSolitudeBurningLive Your LifeObscurityWay To Live Author:Paul Auster
“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.” MeanHandsSeemsDesirePassionWealthPovertyHumilityHonorDemandEmptyRichesVanityDisplayCraveObscurityFurious Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.” MenMadeSelfDealsPovertyStruggleTruth IsMajorsLowsLaborPresidentialCandidatesAccomplishedScholarSenatorsObscurityStatesmenFranklinSelf MadePresidential CandidateSelf Made ManGarfield Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.” KnowsWritingTryingWellsBookVoiceDealsPovertyOne ThingSeaDogLaborTradeRejectionPaceObscurityNuanceBarbara Author:Timothy Egan
“Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.” Life IsPovertyExcitingTradeObscurityOld DaysOrdealsGood Old Days Author:Jim Carrey