“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.”
“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.”
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”
“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”