Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.