Writing Quote by Alexandra Johnson

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Leonard Bernstein

“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”

— Tibor Fischer

“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West