Ivette

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin