Agony Quote by George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

There's nothing more painful than writing.

— Paul Haggis

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg