Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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

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

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

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

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

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

Writing is hard.

Writing is a difficult thing.

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

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

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

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

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

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.' You're really just throwing mud at the wall and then going, 'Oh, there's a pattern there.'

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing in your first draft is not the end of a horrible process, but the beginning of a beautiful one.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.