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Thinking Quotes by William Zinsser
- Writing is thinking on paper.
- Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
- Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors…
- Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
- Thought is action in rehearsal.
- 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.…
- Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
- Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when…
- 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…
- Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your…
- I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.
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