Difficulty Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come…

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Roger Angell

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter…

— Maxwell Perkins

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing…

— Dean Young

“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing…

— Mark Vonnegut

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

— Kristin Hunter

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by…

— Jane Asher