Clear Quote by Roy Blount, Jr

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

— Lyle Lovett

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce

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

— Jillian Bell

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.

— Zoe Leonard

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

— Alex Lemon

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

— Cheryl Strayed

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

— Judy Delton

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

— William Zinsser

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser