“It is difficult not to write satire.”
“Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.”
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”
“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”