“Having the courage to say the truth, unabashedly, is the hardest part of writing.”
“The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.”
“Tone is the hardest part of saying no.”
“The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.”
“That's the hardest part," he says. "The absence of certainty.”
“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”