Able Quote by Lucy Calkins

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

— David McCullough

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

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

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

— David Henry Hwang

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

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right…

— Adam Gopnik

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— David McCullough

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne