Attempting Quote by Shannon Hale

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

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because…

— Markus Zusak

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans…

— Nicholas Sparks

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I…

— Louis Sachar

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know…

— Alan Dean Foster

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

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