Determined Quote by Karl Popper

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write…

— Martha Ronk

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

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready…

— William A. Dembski

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily…

— Thomas Merton

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either…

— William Zinsser

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale