"There's nothing hard about writing. All you have to do is sit down and open up a vein." 

--Walter "Red" Smith

My feelings of this quote are mostly one sided. I completely agree with the irony in it, for it shows correctly that writing is, in fact, hard no matter how innately skilled you are with it. Yet on the other hand, I know that many people who have never had to sit down and think and then write and then think and then write some more...in comparison to the obviously difficult jobs out there, they see a career as an author to be easy and laid-back. This is so far off the path of truth that those who believe it are lost in the proverbial forest and stand little chance of being found.