“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.”

-C. J. Cherryh

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

–David McCullough

“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.”

-William Zinnser

“Good writing is clear thinking made visible.”

-Bill Wheeler

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

-George Orwell

“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a writer’s block.”

–John Rogers