Grant Heslov Quotes

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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

I really hate to write.

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.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I have always found writing very difficult.

Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

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

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I hate writing.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

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.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.