“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”
“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick.”
“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.”