Idleness Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

— Ray Bradbury

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

— Jemaine Clement

Writing is busy idleness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

— R. A. Salvatore

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs…

— Richard Flanagan

“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but working without…

— Marc Levy

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

— Dan Simmons

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very…

— Nicholas Sparks