British Quote by Geoff Thompson

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter…

— Maxwell Perkins

Both writing and thinking, like children, require plenty of patience till growing up.

— Mariana Fulger

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work…

— J. Michael Straczynski

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 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

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown…

— Andre Maurois

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to…

— Robert Cormier

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

I have always found writing very difficult.

— Sandra Brown

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by…

— Jane Asher