When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

I wish I could tell you that I'm happy for you...but it's harder than I thought

— Anonymous

If you don't rely on others to make you happy then it will be harder for people to make you mad as well.

— Anonymous

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

— David Geffen

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

— Shelley Long

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that…

— Brian Selznick

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought,…

— Colleen Hoover

I think it's exciting because it pushes you harder to write a great song. Even for established artists, it has to be really good…

— Nina Nesbitt

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most…

— Richard Russo

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

— Tim O'Brien

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

— James N. Frey

In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a…

— Jason Pierce

The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the…

— Jennifer Donnelly

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is…

— Amy Bloom