Clarity Quote by David McCullough

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." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities , July/Aug.…

— David McCullough

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

— Lewis Black

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.

— William Zinsser

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

— Pat Conroy

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 one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

— E. B. White

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

— Oscar Wilde

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

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