Aerodynamics Quote by Ira Glass

Creating anything is hard.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that…

— Emily Barton

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

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

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them.…

— Alastair Reynolds

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story.…

— Etgar Keret

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

— Lawrence Durrell

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