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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

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Leon Uris
American - Writer
August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All things that are worthwhile are very difficult to obtain.

Jonny Kim

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Joe Elliott

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.

Neel Mukherjee

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

Ian Mckellen

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

Bruce Springsteen

I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other, and that's really important for co-writing. I think both of us bring different things to each song.

Jason Reeves

People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change - it's very difficult. It's a very, very abstract concept. So we need to work on making it very educational and very, very clear, in very simple terms.

Patricia Espinosa

I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty.

Sarnath Banerjee

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

Paddy McGuinness

I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.

Megan Rapinoe

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Eduardo Galeano

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

David Cronenberg

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Bette Davis

You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

Adam Young

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