Adversity Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

— Kristin Hunter

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Roger Angell

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

— Thomas Mann

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

— Thomas Mann

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

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

— Anonymous