Best writing & difficult Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”

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Author:Adele

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”

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Book:Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”

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Author:Agnes Denes

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

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Author:Andre Maurois

“In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.”

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Author:Juvenal

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.”

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Author:Walter Pater

“Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.”

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Author:Asne Seierstad

“Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.”

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Author:Gucci Mane

“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

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Author:R. A. Lafferty

“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

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