Ifs Quote by Kevin Bleyer

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

— Rosario Castellanos

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

— Marvin Minsky

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

It's the writing that teaches you.

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because…

— Frederick Lenz

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your…

— Dan Barden

If you can explain something with words then you don't know it well.

— George Zafiris