Summary: “A good writer is a good thinker.”
That sentence was said by a professor of ours who taught media writing. He has been in the LA Times numerous times, and has been a literary critic for a number of years. Needless to say, we took his advice and criticism seriously. He held the fact that if you are able to translate what are you thinking into the written word, in the simplest of terms, you were thinking at your highest capacity.