“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort")”
“Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”
“he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular”
“Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.”