Amazing grace Quote by Jonathan Kozol

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production…

— John Steinbeck

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard…

— V. S. Naipaul

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

— Lynne Tillman

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

— William McKeen

All of my books come from pain.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

— Ernest Hemingway

There's nothing more painful than writing.

— Paul Haggis

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I…

— Patti Smith

The pain had no ebb or flow. It was a constant ever-increasing knell in my chest, timed to the beating of my broken heart.

— Mary Lindsey

I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother…

— Dani Shapiro