The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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.
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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