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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. — Roger Angell

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

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. — Annie Dillard

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

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. — John Grisham

Writing a novel is easy ... writing checks is hard. — Michael J. Kannengieser

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

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

The beauty of existence is my joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. — Ken Kesey

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills. — Alane Adams

Don't try so hard to be the penetrating observer. Writing is, after all, a makeshift thing. — Anonymous

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love. — Melanie Martinez

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. — Edmund Wilson

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. — Gene Weingarten

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you. — R.M. Donaldson

Easy reading is hard writing, — Ernest Hemingway,

Writing is hard for everybody except fools. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Easy writings curse is hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. — Aubrey Plaza

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. — Stephen Leacock

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. — A.D. Posey

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. — Alice Munro

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. — Kate Morton

Writing a book is easy, getting people to read it is the hard part. — Jordon Sagel

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. — Edward Abbey

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard. — Ned Beauman

Writing is easy; getting the words in the right order is the hard part. — W.A. Rusho

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is. — Cary Fukunaga

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands. — Chila Woychik

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. — Nicholas Sparks

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. — Akhil Sharma

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly. — Joshua Bloch

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard. — Steven Moffat

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

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life. — Jerry Stahl

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

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

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

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

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. — Ernest Hemingway,

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 a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better — Ernest Hemingway,

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. — Nell Zink

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

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

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

File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. — Antony Johnston

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

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. — Caroline Leavitt

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

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change. — Yochai Benkler

It is also hard to write about a city we just moved to; it's not yet in our body. — Natalie Goldberg

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. — David Sedaris

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

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. — Amy Poehler

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. — Jonathan Stroud

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard. — Eliza Green

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

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. — Jane Yolen

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

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. — Dennis R. Miller

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten. — Mel Gibson

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard. — A.P. Fuchs

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy. — Patricia Hampl

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

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

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. — Ryan Murphy

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

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

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. — Zephyr Teachout

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector

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

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read. — Ken Stark

It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. — Zadie Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder. — Lauren Miller

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

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that? — L.A. Jones

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing. — Brett Dennen

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. — Sidney Sheldon

Writing is hard work. — William Zinsser

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount Jr.