Adversity Quote by Anaïs Nin

“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the…

— Amélie Nothomb

“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

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.”

— Avijeet Das

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption…

— David Grossman

“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself . . .…

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig