William Zinsser Quotes About Writing Well

Quotes about: Writing Well

• Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Hard Work, People

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.9, Harper Collins

• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

  William Zinsser

  Writing Well, Subjects, Products

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

• Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Essence, Games

• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

• The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Secret, Sentences

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

  William Zinsser

  Being Yourself, Writing, Trying

• All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Problem, Writing Well

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 8: Unity, p. 49), 1976.

• Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Mean, Essence

• Clutter is the disease of American writing.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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