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5. “I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Outdoor Work, Writing Struggles, Passion, Simplicity, Labor, Nature
6. “When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” John Steinbeck Writing Struggles, Gradual Progress, Daily Effort, Persistence, Focus, Success
8. “I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming.” George R. R. Martin Writing Struggles, Creative Process, Inspiration, Flow State, Frustration, Artistic Struggle
Writing Struggles Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Outdoor Work, Writing Struggles, Passion, Simplicity, Labor, Nature
6. “When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
John Steinbeck Writing Struggles, Gradual Progress, Daily Effort, Persistence, Focus, Success
8. “I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming.”
George R. R. Martin Writing Struggles, Creative Process, Inspiration, Flow State, Frustration, Artistic Struggle
