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Inspirational Quotes by William Zinsser
- If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
- Writing is thinking on paper.
- Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
- Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
- To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
- Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
- Good writers are visible just behind their words.
- Good writing is lean and confident.
- Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.
- Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.
- Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
- Clutter is the disease of American writing,
- People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,
- Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
- You learn to write by writing.
- Thought is action in rehearsal.
- A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.
- A writer is always working.
- There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
- Writing is a craft not an art.
- There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
- If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
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