On Writing Better: Getting Started – Jason Zweig

I also know why I write: to learn.  For me, writing is like peeling the onion of my own ignorance.  The clearer and simpler I try to make my thoughts as I set them down, the more I realize how little I know and  how much more I need to read, how much longer I need to study, how many more people I need to talk with, before I can finally write without feeling like a complete imposter or intellectual fraud