Attempts Quote by Natasha Trethewey

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

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

— W. G. Sebald

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

— Jennifer Egan

Writing is so hard… The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed…

— Margaret Atwood

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I…

— David Sedaris

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or…

— Lauren Weisberger

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell