Top 100 Writing Is Easy Quotes
#1. Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Red Smith
#2. Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!
L.A. Jones
#3. Writing is easy, good writing is hard and excellent writing is hard work.
G.H. Guzik
#4. Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Mark Twain
#5. Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
Eliza Green
#6. Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
Red Barber
#7. Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.
Dennis R. Miller
#8. Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
#9. Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
Paulo Coelho
#11. Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#12. Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy.
Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.
Tarang Sinha
#13. Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
Amy Joy
#14. The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.
Gillian Roberts
#15. Writing is easy...all you have to do is sit at the typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway
Dana Wayne
#16. Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
Stephen Leacock
#17. Writing is easy; getting the words in the right order is the hard part.
W.A. Rusho
#18. I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.
Molly Antopol
#19. Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
Amy Joy
#20. Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#21. Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
Joe Elliott
#22. Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis
#23. Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.
Guy Kawasaki
#24. The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
Jodi Picoult
#25. And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
Octavia Butler
#26. Writing is the birth of my closure. Either it splits me open and comes out easy with tears or it pushes me to hysterics. Whichever way, it brings me a new life.
Sandra Proto
#27. Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto a page is easy. But writing, the real kind, is hard. It's damn hard.
Allison M. Dickson
#28. I think we're on a journey ... It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.
Donna Karan
#29. Two easy steps to be a good writer:
1. Don't write what everyone is writing.
2. Write what everyone is trying to write.
Himanshu Chhabra
#30. Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.
Kate Christensen
#31. My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
#32. I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Armando Iannucci
#33. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
Carrie Newcomer
#34. I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
Sharon Olds
#35. Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
Fennel Hudson
#36. Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.
Seth Shostak
#37. Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
Steven Moffat
#39. All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
William, Saroyan
#40. There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with these issues themselves. In that struggle, you inform the audience. The thing about this writing is that it's very easy to learn. Good writing always is.
Colm Meaney
#41. If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that's a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.
Joss Whedon
#42. Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion.
Mark Vonnegut
#43. It appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
#44. As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.
Tyler Hilton
#45. Writing a book is easy, getting people to read it is the hard part.
Jordon Sagel
#46. First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
Fitzhugh Dodson
#47. I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
Ann Patchett
#48. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
Steven Moffat
#49. Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.
Katherine Reay
#50. The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
Enya
#51. I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.
Matthew Specktor
#52. Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."
H.L. Mencken
#53. What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!
John Fogerty
#54. Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.
Nikki Sixx
#55. It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size ...
Ron Padgett
#56. Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea.
Amy Poehler
#57. Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Michael Arndt
#58. If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.
Simone Pond
#59. Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.
Sara Quin
#60. Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#61. Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
Mo Willems
#62. Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.
Alvi Syahrin
#63. Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.
R.M. Donaldson
#64. The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
Anton Chekhov
#65. It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
Guy Ritchie
#66. Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
Neel Mukherjee
#67. I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
Zephyr Teachout
#68. Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#69. No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
Clarice Lispector
#71. I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins
#72. One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
Matthew Reilly
#74. Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.
Neil Gaiman
#75. I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
Kary Mullis
#76. A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
Homer Hickam
#77. It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
Samuel Johnson
#78. Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
Haruki Murakami
#79. The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. Seuss
#80. Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#81. Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.
Peter C. Brown
#83. Sometimes writing is hard. You know what's not hard? Watching Netflix. That's easy.
Beth Revis
#84. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V.S. Naipaul
#85. The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.
Leigh Newman
#86. I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real.
Ramsey Lewis
#87. Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
J.B. Priestley
#88. Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall.
Christie Purifoy
#89. As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris Pasternak
#90. It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about
(That is, when you are young) ...
Philip Larkin
#91. Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.
A.P. Fuchs
#92. Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
Margaret Stohl
#93. Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.
David Bezmozgis
#94. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#95. To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.
Franz Kafka
#96. No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn't easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
Ryan Holiday
#97. 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.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#99. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Stephen Graham Jones
#100. The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.
Jeanette Michelle
