Writing Quote by George Orwell

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

— Oscar Wilde

“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the…

— Amélie Nothomb

“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

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

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them…

— Pat Conroy

“Some people think about writing, I write.”

— Starr Gardinier Reina

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into…

— Pat Conroy

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

— David McCullough

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy