Natalie Maines Quotes

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

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

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

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

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

I hate writing.

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

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

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

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'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

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 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.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

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

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.

Writing is not fun.

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.

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

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

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

Every writer I know has trouble writing.