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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

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.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.