Able Quote by Pattiann Rogers

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

— Ernest Gaines

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult…

— R. A. Lafferty

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— William Howard Taft

“write whatever comes into your head, as fast as you can type, without reference to outlines, notes, data, books or any other aids. The…

— Howard S. Becker