Currents Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all…

— Anonymous

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

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

— David McCullough

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

— Ezra Pound

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim

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

— David McCullough

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser