The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were…

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to…

— Miller Williams

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily -…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

“It is difficult to write about a real person.”

— T.H. White

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

— Aaron Bruno

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

— Ezra Pound

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

— Juvenal

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon