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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
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
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
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
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
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
