Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.