Marissa Moss Quotes

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

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

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Writing is hard.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Writing is a difficult thing.

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

I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.

I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

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 part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.

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

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!