Argument Quote by George Polya

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from…

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

— Uzodinma Iweala

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the…

— Beryl Bainbridge

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to…

— Quintilian

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to…

— Joan Didion

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous