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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

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

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.