Books Quote by Milt Kamen

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I essentially write for myself.

— Leon Uris

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to…

— Charlaine Harris

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing…

— Alexa Chung

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the…

— Howard Nemerov

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

Hard writing makes easy reading.

— Wallace Stegner