Amsterdam Quote by Mary Lee Settle

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

— Whitney M. Young

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

— Malcolm Forbes

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day…

— Cheryl Strayed

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right?…

— Janet Malcolm

“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account of its…

— Frank Sargeson

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

— Wanda Sykes

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have…

— Nikola Tesla

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have…

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

— Elizabeth Foreman Lewis