Writing Pain Quotes

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Writing is a delicious agony.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.