Writing is a craft not an art.
"William Knowlton Zinsser" is an American writer, Editing/editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic, and editorial writer. He has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines.
More William Zinsser on Wikipedia.It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word.
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
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