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You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one. — Harrison Salisbury

I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. — Haruki Murakami

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Enrique Jardiel Poncela

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort. — Dave Preston

Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity. — Greg Cox

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand. — Donald Windham

World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love. — Micah R. Sisk

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands. — Chila Woychik

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. — Billy Strayhorn

I wish to continue reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel. — Leigh Brackett

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. — Robin Hobb

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me. — Dan Chaon

When you follow the right steps you will never get lost. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count. — Katherine Mansfield

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog — Mark Rubinstein

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When — Daisy Hernandez

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. — James Joyce

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. — Joyce Carol Oates

Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier. — Dov Davidoff

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death. — Craig Briggs

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer