It is difficult not to write satire.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have…

— Carl Hiaasen

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it…

— Bo Burnham

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

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

— Juvenal

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of…

— Jennifer Egan

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?”

— Juvenal

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

— Aaron Bruno

“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up to a…

— Brittany Cavallaro

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

— Ezra Pound

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon