Books Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

— Roland Barthes

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Akhil Sharma

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

— Marianne Moore