Jul 06 2009
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“ [Writing] feels difficult to me a lot. Which doesn’t mean I don’t love it and I’m not pulled to it on a daily, nightly, insomniac basis. Your point about it being very hard work is a good one. It’s tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you’re not quite there and you’re redoing it and redoing it and there’s a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It’s a job of tremendous anxiety for me.
— Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout enunciating why writing is so damn hard, in Newsweek.com’s “Author’s Roundtable” (see here for the full transcript). (via chfdigital) (via cajunboy) (via inothernews)
