A Quote by William Zinsser

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

William Zinsser

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William Zinsser
American - Writer
October 7, 1922 - May 12, 2015

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Ernest Hemingway

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

M. H. Abrams

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Maya Angelou

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading requires hard writing.

Anthony Trollope

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Maya Angelou

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.