Cary Fukunaga Quotes

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

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

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

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.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

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

Writing has never been that simple for me.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

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.

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.

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.