Best Quotes by William Zinsser (Top 10)
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Writing is a craft not an art.
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
William Zinsser
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If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
William Zinsser
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
William Zinsser
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There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
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Editors are licensed to be curious.
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Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
William Zinsser
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One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
William Zinsser
More William Zinsser Quotes
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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser