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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'