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Sell yourself, and your subject will exert its own appeal. Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
One of the underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. That task is so central to this book
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Clear writing is the logical arrangement of thought; a scientist who thinks clearly can write as well as the best writer.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Through the writing of our students we are reminded of their individuality. We are reminded, whatever subject we are charged with teaching, that our ultimate charge is to produce broadly educated men and women with a sense of stewardship for the world they live in.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
I’ve told the story because this is a book about process: the process of transmitting information clearly and simply. Only by repeated applications of process—writing and rewriting and pruning and shaping—can we hammer out a clear and simple product.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
That, finally, is the life-changing message of On Writing Well: Simplify your language and thereby find your humanity.
William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
As for substance, be intensely selective.