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Good Quotes by William Zinsser
- Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the…
- Good writers are visible just behind their words.
- Good writing is lean and confident.
- The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could…
- Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be…
- The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,
- If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
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