But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a…

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but…

— Gilbert Highet

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

— Lewis Carroll

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.

— Doris Lessing

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t…

— Gore Vidal

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words…

— Italo Calvino

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the…

— Amélie Nothomb

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all…

— Shakti Gawain

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt…

— Jon Stewart

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another…

— Mario Batali

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”

— Kevis Hendrickson

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather…

— Elmore Leonard

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill