Becomes Quote by Rajiv Menon

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

— Patricia C. Wrede

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

— Janet Fitch

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and…

— Busy Philipps

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

— Lyle Lovett

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

— Patricia Hampl

Just get all of your ideas down. To me, writing is therapy and a way to clear your mind and step into a different…

— Nick Cannon

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

— Richie Benaud

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue