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To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

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