Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read something where the pages are going to move along. That's what I want. It doesn't have to be a thriller or a mystery. Just something where I get caught up in the story.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.
I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Easy reading requires hard writing.
What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, 'Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.
When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
My books are easy to read. No folderol.
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
