[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected…

“Don't give up because things are hard, but work harder, when you think of giving up.”

— Anthony Liccione

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

— Patty Jenkins

“Sometimes we try to hard to be something we are not, perhaps being ourselves is harder than we think.”

— Carol Brearley

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if…

— Harlan Ellison

Writing is always harder than talking.

— Gloria Steinem

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much…

— Paloma Elsesser

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing…

— Erik Wolpaw

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

— David Duchovny

I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of…

— John Steinbeck

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

— Kristin Hunter

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block.…

— Dick Cavett

I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing…

— Luke Hemmings

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than…

— Fran Lebowitz