A Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
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.
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started.
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.
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.
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
Easy reading requires hard writing.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
Easy writing makes hard reading.
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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