“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”
Source: Lock and Key
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“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
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”
Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist
Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist
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