People Quote by David Ogilvy

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

People who say they read more write better.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

— George Orwell

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some people think about writing, I write.”

— Starr Gardinier Reina

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is…

— Samuel Johnson

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor