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A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment. — Adam Gopnik

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem. — Benjamin Clementine

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. — Fulton J. Sheen

I write to understand what I know. — Kamand Kojouri

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself. — Manuel Puig

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. — Rosario Castellanos

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that. — Steve Earle

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write. — Ingrid Bengis

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand. — Donald Windham

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career. — Jill Soloway

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money. — Drake

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it. — Carla H. Krueger

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. — Sharon Olds

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. — Alice Walker

On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in. — Grace Paley

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things. — Julia Alvarez

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world? — Isobelle Carmody

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. — Hassan Blasim

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand. — Joan Didion

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do. — Jose Saramago

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand. — Ernest Hemingway,

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. — Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

You have to taste a culture to understand it. — Deborah Cater

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul — Paulo Coelho

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand — Novalis

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett

good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep — Anne Lamott

I write to understand as much as to be understood. — Elie Wiesel

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. — Stephen Chbosky

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it. — Vint Cerf

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. — David McCullough

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Indeed, when you write, the point isn't to make your reader understand. The point is to make him or her feel. — Scott Edelstein

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand. — Miguel De Cervantes

Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on. — Delia Ephron

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. — Damon Albarn

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better. — Dacia Maraini

Don't just read to read. Read to understand. — Jill Telford

I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand. — Kate Grenville

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place. — Lisa Unger

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand. — Erin Willett

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel De Montaigne

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck

May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd