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Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.
— Carl Hart
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
— Aaron Shepard
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
— J.B. Priestley
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
— Jessamyn West
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.
— Rodman Philbrick
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
— E. O. Wilson
All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.
— Haruki Murakami
Continue writing... No matter how difficult it is or how disheartening... never stop.
— Ugochukwu Kingsley Ani
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
— E.L. Doctorow
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.
— Ira Glass
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
— Jacques Barzun
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
— Martha Grimes
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
— Alex Turner
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
— David Ogden Stiers
To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
— Dennis Covington
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
— Bobby Farrelly
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
— Ray Bradbury
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
— Lytton Strachey
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
— Eduardo Galeano
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
— Helene Cixous
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
— Julia Cameron
Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
— Leo Tolstoy
Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult
— Anne Sigismund Huff
You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
— Franz Kafka
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
— Charles Bukowski
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
— Elizabeth Moon
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
— Akhil Sharma
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's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
— John Locke
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock
it is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
— David Cronenberg
Writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
— Salman Rushdie
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Leonard Bernstein
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
— Anton Chekhov
All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
— Carrie Vaughn
Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend who is still liable to surprise us.
— N. T. Wright
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
— Frank Luntz
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
— Walter Pater
Writing is a difficult thing.
— Scott Thompson
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.
— Busy Philipps
We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.
— Miranda Lambert