Average Quote by Francis Crick

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

— Derek J. de Solla Price

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.

— Carrie Coon

“The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

— Paul Auster

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

— Akhil Sharma

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin