Clear your mind Quote by Dan Chaon

“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

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them…

— Pat Conroy

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into…

— Pat Conroy

“If you are here because you think writing will always be fun, you're in for a disappointment. Writing -- real writing -- is among…

— M. Molly Backes

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's…

— Steven Pressfield

“Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto…

— Allison M. Dickson

“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 is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant…

— Tony Kushner

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

— Bobby Farrelly