Doe Quote by Bridget of Sweden

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

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 means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

— Jef Mallett

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The way to write well is to live intensely.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all…

— Anonymous

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

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

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks…

— Anonymous

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon