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Write Quotes by William Zinsser
- I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
- I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product…
- Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
- The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.
- You learn to write by writing.
- 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…
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