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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. — Bonnie Friedman

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it. — John Lutz

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. — John Irving

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work. — Amy Joy

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. — Sandra Brown

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

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. — Randy Pausch

May you will have the grace to complete the task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Too many irons, not enough fire. — S. Kelley Harrell

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks. — Mindy Kaling

Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly. — Alasdair Gray

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work. — George Gershwin

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. — Sean O'Casey

Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall

Respect your dream. — Jill Williamson

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work. — Lewis Black

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work. — Nicola Cornick

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work. — Rachel Gibson

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. — David Ogden Stiers

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time. — Shelby Foote

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might. — S.A. Tawks

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. — Andy Wilkinson

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. — David McCullough

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that. — Yann Martel

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty — Alison Wong

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. — Donna Tartt

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs. — Andrew Ripp

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin

Writing is wonderful. But it's hard work, so don't romanticize too much. Make the blinking cursor do its job. — Joseph LoGuidice

Writing is not glamorous - it's hard work. If you want to be a glamorous writer, wear purple nail varnish when you type.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me. — John Irving

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies. — Christopher Darden

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. — Carl Sandburg

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out. — Rebel Miller

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. — Dorothy Day

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. — Raymond E. Feist

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing. — Jincy Willett

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. — Jincy Willett

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures. — Marc Brown

Writing is hard work. — William Zinsser

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day. — Charles M. Schulz

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.: — Geraldine Solon

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. — Johnny Rich

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. — George R R Martin

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress. — Jacqueline Susann

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo — Leigh Bardugo

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ... — Hallie Burnett

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego. — Simon Sheppard

Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. — Brandi L. Bates

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. — Bill Barich

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. — E.B. White

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work. — Pell James

Writing is easy, good writing is hard and excellent writing is hard work. — G.H. Guzik

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work. — William Zinsser

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

It can be done. It will be done. — Lailah Gifty Akita