Aim Quote by Frederic G. Kenyon

“Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost invariably he…

— Ian Gregor

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least somewhat to…

— Walter J. Ong

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

— Donald O. Hebb

With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and…

— Rossiter Johnson

“It’s important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.”

— S.J. Scott

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

— CJ Heck

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco