Books Quote by Janet Malcolm

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

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.…

— Giles Colborne

Writing is hard work.

— William Zinsser

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.…

— William Zinsser

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

— Virginia Woolf

I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but…

— David Seltzer

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on,…

— Terry Pratchett