Independence Quote by Oscar Wilde

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

— George Orwell

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

— David McCullough

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

— David McCullough

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

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy

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

“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

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities , July/Aug.…

— David McCullough

“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

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

“I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I…

— James Thurber

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

— Kurt Vonnegut