Ambiguous Quote by Crawford Kilian

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well…

— Maryanne Wolf

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

— Janna Levin

I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

— Janet Evanovich

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning…

— Arlo Guthrie

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and…

— John Hodgman

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

— Carl Hart

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Easy writing makes hard reading.

— Ernest Hemingway