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A clear sentence is no accident. — William Zinsser

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

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost. — William Zinsser

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you. — William Zinsser

Writing is thinking on paper — William Zinsser

Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves. — William Zinsser

Vulnerability has a strength of its own. — William Zinsser

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

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. — William Zinsser

Editors are licensed to be curious. — William Zinsser

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

Every writing project must be reduced before you start to write. — William Zinsser

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

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

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive. — William Zinsser

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment. — William Zinsser

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it. — William Zinsser

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good. — William Zinsser

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other. — William Zinsser

A writer is always working. — William Zinsser

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing. — William Zinsser

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. — William Zinsser

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem. — William Zinsser

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant. — William Zinsser

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you. — Donald Miller

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. — William Zinsser

We write to find out what we know and what we want to say. — William Zinsser

Good writers are visible just behind their words. — William Zinsser

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser

Good writing is lean and confident. — William Zinsser

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal. — William Zinsser

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — William Zinsser

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please. — William Zinsser

Writing is the handmaiden of leadership. — William Zinsser

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

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

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

You learn to write by writing. — William Zinsser

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

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

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

Writing is hard work. — 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

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

Writing is a craft not an art. — William Zinsser

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

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser

Truth needs no adornment. — William Zinsser

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? — William Zinsser

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. — William Zinsser

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

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work. — William Zinsser

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser

writing is a sanity-saving companion for people in times of grief, loss, illness, and other accidents of fate. — William Zinsser