Books Quote by Roy Peter Clark

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by…

— Jane Asher

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it,…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

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

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”

— CJ Heck

“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books.…

— Joe Bunting

“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“Easy reading is hard writing,”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the…

— Ezra Pound