Charles Krauthammer Quotes

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

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

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

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

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.