„Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Easy writing makes hard reading.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara
„For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.“
— Virginia Woolf
„No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.“
— Ronald Fisher
„Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.“
— Peter Handke