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Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

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