Gene Fowler Quotes

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

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.

I hate writing.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

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.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is not fun.

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

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.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.