Difficult Quote by Jessamyn West

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,

— S. S. Van Dine

Let's face it, writing is hell.

— William Styron

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

— Cynthia Ozick

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

— David Shields

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence…

— Louis Auchincloss

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

— Erica Jong

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

— Julia Cameron