Stephen Leacock Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

  Stephen Leacock

  Writing, Ideas, Simplicity

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.194, University of Toronto Press

• 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

  Writing, Paper, Down And

• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Writing, Islands

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

• To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

  Stephen Leacock

  Writing, Firsts, Wells

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