It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.