You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy…

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

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— William Zinsser

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try…

— Zachary Lazar

“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

— David Bezmozgis

I think comedy is very easy. Its all in the writing. If the writing is good and you have good director it is good.

— Chunky Pandey

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”

— Amy Joy

“Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

“Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto…

— Allison M. Dickson

Easy writing makes hard reading.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Collecting data is easy; writing about data is hard.”

— Paul J. Silvia