Avoid Quote by Melody Carlson

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

I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on…

— Dan Simmons

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

— Bob Seger

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better....…

— William Zinsser

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to…

— Wayne Dyer

I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

— Trevor McNevan

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

— Larry Wilmore

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very…

— Gloria Estefan

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe