Scott Thompson Quotes

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

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

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 just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

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

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.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

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

Writing is hard.

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

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Writing is not fun.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.