Brain Quote by Carole Maso

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

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

— David McCullough

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

— Anonymous

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

The way to write well is to live intensely.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then…

— Dani Shapiro

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind”

— Munia Khan