Endure Quote by Philip Roth

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

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

— Larry Wilmore

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant…

— Tony Kushner

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used…

— Anne McCaffrey

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose…

— Patrick Modiano

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to…

— Peter Heller

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

— Doris Lessing

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be,…

— Francesca Lia Block

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane