“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”

“Delivery, delivery, delivery.”

“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it. Accepting that a virus might be difficult to detect in your own mind, what tell-tale signs might you look out for? I shall answer by imaging how a medical textbook might describe the typical symptoms of a sufferer”

“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

“Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. […] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.”

“Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.”

“It is difficult not to write satire.”
Difficile est saturam non scribere.

“He tried to put more conviction into his voice than he felt, and he mentally cursed any God that there might be, for having made this coming ordeal not only tremendously difficult and dangerous, but possibly pointless too.”

“I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.”

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”