The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions. - William Zinsser
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
- William Zinsser
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. A… - William Zinsser
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. A…
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what… - William Zinsser
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what…
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive. - William Zinsser
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse… - William Zinsser
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse…
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. - William Zinsser
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. - William Zinsser
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough. - William Zinsser
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless… - William Zinsser
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless…
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