Hard Quote by George Benjamin

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose…

— Patrick Modiano

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

— Rita Moreno

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I…

— Patti Smith

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

— Anne Tyler

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart…

— Will Hobbs

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain…

— Axl Rose

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

— Rashida Jones