Edited Quote by K. M. Soehnlein

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

— Pat Conroy

“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

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

— Anonymous

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

— William Blake

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author…

— Pierre Bayle

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Best of Writers have Abstract Minds”

— Tranaya jordan lowe

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding