Try Quotes

I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.

Usually I’m trying to work with people that I’ve worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we’re going to do together.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.