Attraction Quote by George Orwell

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to…

— George Orwell

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

— Patricia Hampl

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

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

— Jillian Bell

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

— William Zinsser

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing…

— Stephen Kuusisto

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

— Lyle Lovett