Effort Quote by Virginia Woolf

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when…

— Kate Braverman

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

— Susan Sontag

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

— Earl King

Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then…

— Dani Shapiro

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

— Red Barber

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein