Life Quote by Carrie Brownstein

When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult -…

— Joan Didion

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

— Ralph Keyes

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to…

— Sarah Gerard

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could…

— Arthur M. Jolly

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

— Lyle Lovett

“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are. But really…

— Hanif Kureishi

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

— William Zinsser

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write…

— William T. Vollmann

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

— Bryan Fuller

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell