Alive Quote by David Foster Wallace

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

— Jef Mallett

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I…

— Nicole Krauss

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

— Bridget of Sweden

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

— David McCullough

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

— David McCullough