Doe Quote by Richard Mitchell

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy…

— Hugh Blair

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

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

— S. I. Hayakawa

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Oscar Wilde

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds…

— Kathy Acker

“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

I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of…

— Mary O'Neill

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

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

— 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