Agony Quote by John Mason Brown

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes…

— John Mason Brown

“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

— Mani Ratnam

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better……

— William Zinsser

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

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

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for…

— Joanna Scott

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those…

— Hilaire Belloc

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk