A Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish - Novelist
November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

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

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

William Zinsser

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Ernest Hemingway

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

Easy reading requires hard writing.

Anthony Trollope

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.