"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
More by Maya Angelou
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.”
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
“You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.”
More on Writing
“I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.”
“You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.”
“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”
More on Reading
“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”
“Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading”