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010. Lazy (Writer)

In the mid 00's when I was a teacher at the art college in Belfast we were talking a lot about how writing helped your thinking. Although the phrasing ended up a bit cruder, most often expressed as "a lazy writer is a lazy thinker", the sentiment was the same:

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

- David McCullough Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4.