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People read with their ears, whether they know it or not, — William Zinsser

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction. — William Zinsser

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful. — William Zinsser

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser

And so, at last, I come to the one firm conviction that I mentioned at the beginning: it is that the subject is too new for final judgments. — William Zinsser

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead. — William Zinsser

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. — William Zinsser

Editors are licensed to be curious. — William Zinsser

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. — William Zinsser

Not every oak has to be gnarled. — William Zinsser

Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can. — William Zinsser

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction. — William Zinsser

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind, — William Zinsser

Writing is the handmaiden of leadership. — William Zinsser

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds. — William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles. — William Zinsser

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. — William Zinsser

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not. — William Zinsser

Probably no subject is too hard if people take the trouble to think and write and read clearly. — William Zinsser

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold. — William Zinsser

writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself. — William Zinsser

Writing is hard work. — William Zinsser

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. — William Zinsser

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' — Christopher Buckley

I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

You learn to write by writing. — William Zinsser

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, — William Zinsser

Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying. — William Zinsser

It requires writers to do two things that by their metabolism are impossible. They must relax, and they must have confidence. — William Zinsser

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly, about anything at all. — William Zinsser

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity. — William Zinsser

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for. — William Zinsser

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser