Writing Difficulty Quotes

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.

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

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.