Jack Kerouac Quotes

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

I hate writing.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I am always trying to write.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

Writing has to support itself.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

I have always found writing very difficult.

I'm constantly writing.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

Writing is not fun.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.