Billy Squier Quotes

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

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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

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.

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.

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

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

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.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

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.

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

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.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

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.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

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

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

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

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

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.