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Subject Quotes by William Zinsser
- My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop…
- Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
- Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
- Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.… — Michael D. Barnes
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. — Charles Baudelaire
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott
- Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism. — Halle Berry