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Easy reading requires hard writing.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
English - Novelist
April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

William Zinsser

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Ernest Hemingway

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Maya Angelou

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.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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

M. H. Abrams

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

Stephen Leacock

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Mark Vonnegut

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

Mortimer Adler

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