Spike Jonze Quotes

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

Writing a book is not easy.

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.

Writing is a difficult thing.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.