Burden Quote by Leo Ornstein

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

— Audre Lorde

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

— William Zinsser

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices…

— Ice Cube

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

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

— William Styron

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

— William Zinsser