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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Easy writing makes hard reading.
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.
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.
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
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
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!