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The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Writing teaches writing.

I took a lot of writing courses.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.