The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to…

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

— Hesiod

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”

— H Raven Rose

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third…

— Patti Davis

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

— Benjamin Clementine

It's so difficult writing about living people.

— James D. Watson

“Many people think that the idea is the difficult part of writing a story, and this can be true. But there is another challenge…

— William Herring

“I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to…

— David Rakoff

I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of…

— Jon Hopkins

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

— Kinky Friedman

Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price. Writing Hunger…

— Roxane Gay

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

— David Quammen