Any Quote by Adam Ross

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

— Lyle Lovett

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

— John Steinbeck

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on…

— Max Landis

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

— Sean Lock

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have…

— Gail Carson Levine

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod…

— Barbara Tuchman

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.…

— Giles Colborne

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the unchanging verities…

— Neil Gaiman