To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
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
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. - William Zinsser
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
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…
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. - William Zinsser
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
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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