The ability to write reflects on one’s capacity to think clearly.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Writing is thinking.

There is no better way to understand something than to write about it.

If you were to show a piece of intelligible writing to a reasonable person and say to him: 'do you know its writer?' and he said 'no', he would be speaking truly. But if he said 'yes: its writer is a man living and powerful, hearing and seeing, sound of hand and knowledgeable in the practise of writing, and if I know all this from [the sample] how can I not know him?-he too would be speaking truly. Yet the saying of the one who said 'I do not know him' is more correct and true, for in reality he has not known him. Rather he only knows that intelligible writing requires a living writer, knowing, powerful, hearing, and seeing; yet he does not know the writer himself. Similarly, every creature knows only that this ordered and precisely disposed world requires an arranging, living, knowing, and powerful maker.

He was demonstrating to the world the writing was a craft, that it was not an act of magic.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

the awareness of how powerful the written word can be: how you can tap into that world that we are talking about and discover things that would have been impossible to know if you didn't have that connection to a collective knowledge that comes through the writing.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible, —as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.