Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

Writing is not fun.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

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

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.

I have always found writing very difficult.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.