The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
It's so difficult writing about living people.
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.
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
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.
For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.
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