W Quotes
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“Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.”
“Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.”
Source: Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life
“Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“Writing is hard for everybody except fools.”
“Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something."
[There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block: Blog post, October 7, 2001]”
“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
“Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.”
“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.”
“Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.”
“Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”
“Writing is hard work.”
“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
“Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.”
“Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.”
“Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.”
Source: This Old Man: All in Pieces
“Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.”
“Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.”
“Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.”
“Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.”
“writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)
“Writing is hustling of another kind.”
“Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.”
“Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.”
Source: An Essay on Typography
“Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.”
“Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work.”
“Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are many, many people who do the same. The rewards of writing are in the process and not the product - not just for me but for others I have met.”
“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”
“Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.”
“Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.”
“Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.”
“Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.”
Source: Poems
“Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.”
“Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.”
“Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens.”
“Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!”
“Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.”
“Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.”
Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King
“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”
“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.”
“Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.”
“Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.”
“Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice”
“Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.”
“Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.”
“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up.”
“Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.”