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Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, as if they were working on any other project that requires logic: … doing an algebra problem.
Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
The reason I've spent so long establishing this rather obvious point [that writing helps you refine your thinking] is that it leads to another that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone wh... See more
Henrik Karlsson • How to Think in Writing
“Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Of course, you can learn a lot about something without writing about it. However, writing about something complicated and hard to pin down acts as a test to see how well you understand it. When we approach our work as a stranger, we often discover ho... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other. It’s impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English.