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.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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 never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
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.