Speak Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks…

— Anonymous

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of…

— Robert McKee

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

People who say they read more write better.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day