Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).
“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
— Leo Tolstoy, book War and Peace
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Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
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André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
Difficile est saturam non scribere.
I, line 30.
Satires, Satire I
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
Also attributed to Ernest Hemingway and others; the earliest definite occurrence of this yet found in research for Wikiquote is by Maya Angelou, who stated it in Conversations With Maya Angelou (1989) edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot:
I think it's Alexander Pope who says, "Easy writing is damn hard reading," and vice versa, easy reading is damn hard writing
The statement she referred to is most probably:
You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading
Clio's Protest, or the Picture Varnished (written 1771, published 1819) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Disputed
“Writing is easy. It's just the typing that's hard.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Miles Sparks, Prologue, p. 3
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam, p. 128
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“It is difficult to struggle with the common law.”
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England
Kerr v. Willan (1817), 2 Starkie, 54.
“You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Clio's Protest (1819).