Being misunderstood Quote by William Zinsser

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

— Norman MacCaig

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.

— Mick Jones

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet…

— Eric Hoffer

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

— John Wilkins

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the…

— Adam Smith

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do…

— Charles Caleb Colton