Hard Writing Quotes
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Hard Writing Quotes & Sayings
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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
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
— Annie Dillard
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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 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
It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
— Kacey Musgraves
It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
— Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
The hard part is putting one word after another.
— Jo Linsdell
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
Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.
— Cleveland W. Gibson
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
— Alice Munro
At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
— Caroline Leavitt
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
It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.
— Chris Crutcher
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
Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.
— Patrick Dennis
I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
— John Edgar Wideman
If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
— Tad Williams
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
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
— Nicola Cornick
I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'
— Jenny Lewis
Easy reading is the product of hard writing,
— Stephen King
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.
— Matthew Specktor
It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.
— Catherine Brady
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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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
— Kate Christensen
Sure, it will be hard, but all you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.
— Anna Kendrick
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
— William H Gass
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
— David Remnick
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
— Fran Lebowitz
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
— Kris Allen
Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.
— Bucky Pope
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
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
— Donna Tartt
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
— Richard Linklater
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
— David Ogden Stiers
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
— Robert Wyatt
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
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
— Carl Van Doren
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
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
— Mabel Seeley
Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
— Alan Alda
Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
— Eliza Green
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.
— Ruby Bentall
There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.
— Tom Pappalardo
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
— Virginia Woolf
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
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
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
— George Pelecanos
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
— Judy Blume
It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
— Don Roff
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
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
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
— Clarice Lispector
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
— Jon Turteltaub
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 is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
— Cheryl Strayed
A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
— William Zinsser
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
— Steven Moffat
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
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
You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.
— Pell James
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
— E.B. White
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
— William Zinsser
Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
— George R R Martin
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.
— Seth
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...
— Hallie Burnett
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
— Leigh Bardugo
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
— Akhil Sharma