Quotes About Writing

I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

I have a hard time expressing myself when I'm emotional, so my family has done this forever. We write each other letters if we're fighting or whatever. And my dad's a writer, but we write each other letters because we feel that it's easier to get out what you're truly saying if you write it down.

I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

I think when you're writing anything you should never be thinking about hardcore genre fans.

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.