Difficulty Of Writing Quotes:

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

- Mark Twain

topic: Writing, Light, Ideas, Squandering, Difficulty Of Writing

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.183, Univ of California Press

topic: Writing, Plain Language, Ideas, Squandering, Difficulty Of Writing

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

- Andrzej Wajda

source: "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

topic: Writing, Reality, Play, Difficulty Of Writing

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

- Mem Fox

topic: Writing, Difficulty, Teach, Difficulty Of Writing

The more you read, the more you calm down.

- Robert M. Pirsig

source: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

topic: Reading, Calm, Calm Down, Difficulty Of Writing

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Believe, Criticism, Difficulty, Quaker, Inspirational Courage

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Stress, Writing, Thinking, Difficulty Of Writing

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Country, Writing, Simple, Difficulty Of Writing, Picturesque

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.

- Doris Lessing

source: Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Sex, Writing, Difficulty, Difficulty Of Writing