Difficulty Quote by ZZ Packer

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to…

— Justin Cronin

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

— Susan Wiggs

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices…

— Ice Cube

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than a grocery…

— Mary J. Miller

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much.…

— John Connolly

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

— William Zinsser

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale