Expression Quote by Anonymous

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where…

— David Foster Wallace

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right…

— Adam Gopnik

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

— Samuel R. Delany

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison