You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
--
Clio's Protest (1819).Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
Anton Chekhov
I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don’t read much.. ..Probably the only reason I’m painter is because I couldn’t read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I’m writing, but when I’m reading I can’t see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that’s very good for printmaking.
Robert Rauschenberg
Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way. The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between. Personally, I would sooner have written "Alice in Wonderland" than the whole Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams
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