Backgrounds Quote by Walter Jon Williams

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

— John Grisham

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered…

— May Sarton

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

— David Ogden Stiers

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

— Cheryl Strayed

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

— Mary Roach

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

— Grant Heslov

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

— Jesse Ball

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if…

— Harlan Ellison

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

— Khaled Hosseini