Factors Quote by John Irving

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

— Ricky Jay

Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even…

— Karl Iagnemma

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

— Larry Wall

Love is easy, and I love writing.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

— William Zinsser

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than…

— Jerry Stahl

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as…

— Anders Holm

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over,…

— Mark Rubinstein

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by…

— Wendelin Van Draanen