Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.