Caroline Leavitt Quotes

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

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

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

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

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.

I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

You become a great writer by writing.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

Writing is a difficult thing.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

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

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

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

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

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.