The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

- Barry Eisler

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

- Elvis Costello

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

- Edward R. Murrow

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

- Edgar Degas

I had difficulty working for other people.

- Don Cornelius

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

- Daniel Tammet

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

- Clark Duke

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

- Chen Guangbiao

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

- Cyndi Lauper

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

- Adam Carolla

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

- Billy Collins

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

- Alice James

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

- Augustus Hare

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

- Ann Macbeth

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

- Arsene Wenger

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

- Andre Gide

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

- Alan Watts

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

- Alan Dershowitz