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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

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.

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.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.