Books Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize…

— Therese Fowler

Hard writing makes easy reading.

— Wallace Stegner

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”

— CJ Heck

Easy writing makes hard reading.

— Ernest Hemingway

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Easy reading requires hard writing,

— Anthony Trollope

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly…

— Margaret Atwood