Lisa Jewell Quotes

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

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

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

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

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

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Writing is hard.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.