It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.
You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.
If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read 'Wordplay' just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.
I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.
'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
The virtue of books is to be readable.
It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
