Write to be understood not to impress.

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the…

— James Fenton

“I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.”

— Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I…

— Paul Banks

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable…

— Lisa Lucas

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready…

— William A. Dembski

“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not…

— Brenda Ueland

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found…

— Elizabeth George

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz