Coal mining Quote by Cheryl Strayed

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day…

— Cheryl Strayed

“These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a…

— Michel Faber

“We're all dealt our lumps of coal. What you do with it can turn beautiful.”

— Plumb

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”

— Amy Joy

“path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.”

— Greg Iles

“Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“There it was, the choice I’d confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.”

— Greg Iles

“It’s both harder and easier without words.”

— Deb Caletti

“Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can’t…

— Emery Lord

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Probably no subject is too hard if people take the trouble to think and write and read clearly.”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“It is not hard, it is not easy — IT IS.”

— Maya Realm