Write hard and clear about what hurts.

“Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn’t be changed. Write with what gives you the most sensual…

— Richard Hugo

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I read a lot of pilots and I've tried to write some of my own - it's very hard.

— Janelle James

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

— Clarice Lispector

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

— Pauline Chalamet

I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

— John Grisham

“Life is short. Write hard!”

— Gary H. Collins

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've…

— Gwen Stefani

My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time…

— George Saunders

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to…

— Andre Dubus

“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge." -"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".”

— Graham Greene

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me…

— Min Jin Lee

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

— James A. Garfield