Pat Conroy Quotes

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

I like writing, but it really can be a struggle for me.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

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

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

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.

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

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

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.

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.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

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.

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.