A Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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.
Easy reading requires hard writing.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Easy writing makes hard reading.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile 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.
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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.
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
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.
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