Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

I hate writing.

I really hate to write.

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

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

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

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

I have always found writing very difficult.

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.