Iris Dement Quotes

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

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

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

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

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.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

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.

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

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

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

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

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!

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.

I like writing, but it really can be a struggle for me.

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.

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

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

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

Writing is hard.

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

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.