Suffer Quote by Juan Rulfo

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

— Alejandra Pizarnik

“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible”

— Roger Rosenblatt

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's…

— Colm Toibin

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

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

— Anonymous

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the…

— Judith Barrington

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking,…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one…

— Joyce Carol Oates