I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
Easy writing makes hard reading.
The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.
I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.
I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
