Attributes Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret

Anything that isn't writing is easy

— Jimmy Breslin

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

“This story is always yours for the telling. This has always been yours. You can expand to fill it all or take up the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The…

— Michael Ende

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

— John Locke

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

— John Cheever

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

— Bobby Farrelly

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

— Blake Mycoskie

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell