Challenges Quote by Chad Harbach

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to…

— Warren Ellis

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new…

— Julia Quinn

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book…

— John Banville

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't…

— Jane Yolen

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play…

— Ridley Pearson