A Quote by Amy Poehler

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Amy Poehler

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Amy Poehler
American - Comedian
Born: September 16, 1971

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

Richard Avedon

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

Jerry Stahl

Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

Tony Kushner

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

Philip Pullman

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

Ingmar Bergman

Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.

Nicholson Baker

Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it's boring.

David Starkey

I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.

David Bazan

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

David Byrne

Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

Ann Reed

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

Beth Hart

A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.

Dan Chaon

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Ruth Reichl

I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.

Donatella Versace

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