“Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.” HardJobsFemaleMalesQuittingNovelistsDay Jobs Author:Jennifer Weiner
“It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.” BelieveHardFatherCollegeSettingSettingsNovelistsShyGraduatesBradCollege Graduates Author:Grant Morrison
“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsWritingWellsLongRealHardFoundSpaceNovelNovelistsThings To DoDesperateSymptomsDiscouragedHard Things Author:Maxwell Perkins