Humor Quote by James Thurber

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

— George Orwell

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“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

“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

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 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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got…

— Ray Bradbury

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster