Donald Glover Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

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.

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.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

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

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.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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.

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

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

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

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

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