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The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

— George Saunders

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

— Iris Murdoch

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

— Steven Bochco

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

— Terrence McNally

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

— Gregory Maguire

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

— Charles Bukowski

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie