Hell Quote by Robert Hass

Let's face it, writing is hell.

— William Styron

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

— Julia Cameron

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

— Nora Ephron

I think writing is one of the toughest things.

— Eran Creevy

I hate writing, I love having written.

— Dorothy Parker

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald