Bits Quote by Damian Barr

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

— John Cheever

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

— Ernest Hemingway

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

— Ann Patchett

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

— Sal Khan

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of…

— Tracy Kidder

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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…

— Maya Angelou

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

— Grant Heslov

Hard writing makes easy reading.

— Wallace Stegner