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Hard Quotes by William Zinsser
- If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
- Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
- Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember…
- A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
- Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z.…
- Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional…
More Hard Quotes
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do… — Darren Aronofsky
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius